SCENERY CULTURE. The Bellechasse maple syrup corporation, whose creation was announced in February 2020 following the maple museum project in the Armagh church, is back in the news four years later.
The founding general meeting, initially scheduled for fall 2020, will finally take place on Thursday, October 24, at 7 p.m., at the Salle des Bâtisseurs of the MRC de Bellechasse.
Two of the instigators behind this maple syrup corporation project, Daniel Pouliot from Saint-Philémon and Réjean Bilodeau from Saint-Damien, recall that a provisional committee was formed when the Armagh project was announced in 2020. The members of this committee were subsequently to define the mission and general regulations with a view to such a founding meeting which never took place, notably due to the pandemic.
If the project to create a maple interpretation center in Armagh never saw the light of day nor that of a museum subsequently planned at the church of Saint-Philémon, Daniel Pouliot mentions that the future corporation would have the mandate to the promotion of Bellechasse in connection with maple syrup production, which was also put forward in 2020.
“The members of the provisional committee have met regularly over the years. We have always set ourselves objectives, but we want to receive the consent of the population. It is time to revive this project,” says Daniel Pouliot who is also mayor of Saint-Philémon.
Réjean Bilodeau agrees with Mr. Pouliot, adding that it was time to take the legal step by giving legal status to the corporation and forming a real board of directors.
“The Corporation will be reborn with the objective of Bellechassis identity as the cradle of maple syrup production in America. It is difficult to move forward until our NPO is officially recognized. In doing so, it will be able to find funds to carry out its mission and specific projects,” he said, recalling that of all the regional projects launched in recent years, only that of the maple distribution center at the Pavillon Desjardins du Parc Massif du Sud was created.
After the failure of museum projects in the churches of Armagh and Saint-Philémon, he opened his own eco-museum on his land, in Pointe-Lévy range in Saint-Damien.
Mr. Bilodeau said he hopes that people will come in large numbers to the founding meeting on October 24 in Saint-Lazare. “It makes Bellechassois proud of this identity based on maple syrup production and allows the committee to subsequently promote it,” he said in closing.
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