About Maple Moon

Maple Moon Web Design Inc. is owned and run by Lorraine McNulty, who moved from England with her family to Port Perry, Ontario in July 2004. She has been developing websites since 1992. For more information on Maple Moon and Lorraine please visit the Maple Moon Blog.

Why Maple Moon?

Living on the shores of Lake Scugog we get spectacular sunrises and moon rises. It just so happened that one night whilst trying to decide on a name for the new Canadian company the moon rose majestically over Lake Scugog. It had an eerie maple colour to it and the rest, as they say, is history!

"Maple Moon" is what the Ojibwa called the magic time in early spring from mid-March to mid-April when, depending on weather conditions, the mighty maple trees gave up their sweet elixir.

An Iroquois legend tells of piercing the bark of a maple tree and using the sweet water which emerged to cook venison. That accident is said to have established the culinary tradition of maple-cured meats. Natives passed on to the first settlers the skill of tapping trees to obtain sap, and of boiling it to reduce it to sweet syrup or sugar slabs, which could be stored for later use.

The settlers liked the tradition and results so much they passed it on down the line with the ultimate result that, with refinements, "sugaring off" remains an Eastern Ontario rural rite of passage from winter into spring.