I live in Toronto and there is certainly maple sugar production in Ontario.
The Hurons that inhabited much of Ontario were farmers.  The Iroquois that
lived in New York and Quebec were, I believe hunter/gatherers. The attached
site indicates they did use clay pots for maple sugar production, although
some believe that they learned sugar production from Europeans.  Ken

http://www.maple-bush.com/sugarhist.html
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On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 03:28  AM, Erik Fridén wrote:

>  Ditto boiling syrup. Ditto large-scale production of salt.

Does anyone know how the northern Indians made maple sugar before the
European invasion? They were not farmers, at the latitude, and I don't
think they had clay pottery either. All sea salt requires is
evaporation, a hollowed out log would do. Not easy with stone tools.