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Welcome to Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush

A Volunteer-Run
Sugar Bush and Pancake House

Enjoy a guided tour and explore exhibitions while relishing a mouth-watering pancake breakfast topped with pure maple syrup! Established in 1972, the Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush is managed by the Kinsmen Club of Greater London's volunteers and members. The club's motto is...

"Serving the Community's Greatest Need."

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Discover The Sugar Bush

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Pancake House & Pure Maple Syrup

Come to our Pancake House and enjoy our authentic pancakes with pure maple syrup. While you're here, be sure to try our delicious maple products, such as BBQ sauce, jelly, butter, ice cream, and cotton candy. Visit our Sugar Bush today!

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Sugar Bush Tours

Enjoy guided tours, demonstrations, and displays. Buy pure maple syrup and other maple products fresh from our Sugar Bush. We offer a complete maple syrup tour that covers the methods used by indigenous peoples to the modern-day evaporator.

School Tours

Experience an interactive and informative school trip with expert guides, hands-on demonstrations, and engaging exhibits, followed by a delicious dinner at our Pancake House. Find out how to book your class today! Please contact us to be put on a sequential list. We will get back to you once we have finalized our 2025 plans.

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Maple Syrup Products

We offer a variety of maple products, come visit us at our Sugar Bush to try them!

When the Sugar Bush Season is over visit Ace Hardware in Thorndale ON to buy our delicious pure maple syrup!

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Sugar Bush Public Tours

2025 Public Tour Dates

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Our Hours
9:00 am to 4:00 pm (last booking 3:00 pm)

$12 Parking/ Tour/ Wagon Ride (Donation Fee)

You must arrive on time. Your reservation is for the Pancake House Breakfast (Eat first, tour after).
The donation fee is non-refundable. Our cancellation policy states that parking, tours, wagon rides, and donation fees are non-refundable. By booking, you agree to these terms.

2025

Family Day Weekend

Feb 15,16,17

Weekends

Feb 22-23
Mar 1-2
Mar 8-9, 15-16

March Break
Mar 10-14

School Tours

2025 School Tour Information

All meals served with pure maple syrup. For each 10 paid customers, 1 parent receives an equivalent meal as a way of acknowledging the need to have supervision. For bussing drop off and pickup allow 90 minutes for meal and tour

2025

School Tour Dates

9:45am till 3:00pm

Tues Feb 25

Thurs Feb 27

Tues March 4

Thurs March 6

Tues March 18

Thurs March 20

2025

School Tour Pricing
 

1 pancake, hot chocolate, maple bud and walking tour: $7.50

2 pancake, hot chocolate, maple bud and walking tour: $8.25

3 pancake, hot chocolate, maple bud and walking tour: $8.75

Download Our School Information Package

Book a Tour 

We are now closed for the 2024 season, We would llike to thank you those who were able to visit us and hope that  you had a wonderful experience

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About Kin Canada

Founded by Hal Rogers on Feb. 20, 1920, Kin Canada is the nation's largest all-Canadian service club organization. Kinsmen, Kinette and Kin clubs across the country work to better their communities, enhance the well-being of Canadians and improve the environment. The Association boasts a proud history dedicated to fostering life-long friendships while ‘Serving the Community’s Greatest Need.'

More than $1 billion raised
Since our founding in 1920, Kin Canada clubs have donated more than $1 billion to Canadian causes, communities and individuals in need, as well as to disaster relief efforts beyond our borders


Kin Motto
Serving the Community's Greatest Need.

Mission Statement
Volunteers enriching Canadian Communities through Community Service, Leadership, and Partnership.

Membership
Around 6,500 members belong to approximately 480 Kinsmen, Kinette and Kin clubs across Canada. Kinsmen clubs are predominantly male, Kinette clubs are predominantly female and Kin clubs have a mixed membership of men and women

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The Objects of the Association

To promote and direct service work through fellowship amongst its Clubs and their members, to the end that:

1. Members of the Clubs may enjoy personal development through the Association.

2. They may be improved and educated in modern business and professional methods and ethics.

3. The involvement of all in the enrichment of their community may be stimulated.

4. A spirit of co-operation, tolerance, understanding and equality among all nations and peoples be fostered and that unity of thought and purpose throughout Canada be established toward this goal; and they shall serve their community’s greatest need.

Maple Miracles
A short video, where the Kinsmen and Kinettes of London Ontario speak about the Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush and its role in the community.

Land Acknowledgement

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Volunteer/Join

This is  your chance....
Change lives. Make your community a better place: help the less fortunate families; put a smile on  a child's face.

Change your life build lifelong friendships; develop leadership and personal skills; gain a sense of self-confidence

Kin Canada, the  country's largest all-Canadian service club organization, is made up of enthusiastic people just like you gathered together in clubs. There are hundreds of Kinsmen, Kinette and Kin clubs from coast to coast who work together to better their communities, enhance the well being of Canadians an improve the environment.

Together we're bettering out communities and changing lives, You can become a part of it too!

Take us for a test drive ...
Use the "Contact" pages and we will let you know when and where our next meeting and or event is. Come out and see if this opportunity is for you!

 

Enjoy the outdoors?
Our main fundraising project for the Kinsmen Club of Greater London is the Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush. Without members and volunteers this would not be possible. Why not consider getting involved?

Looking for Volunteer Hours?
During   Sugar Bush season we have plenty of opportunities for high school  students to gain  credit towards their volunteer hours.

Either Way....
If you are interested in volunteering or in becoming a member , contact us today!

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Stevenson Children's Camp

The Kinsmen Club of Greater London has had a long lasting relationship with the Stevenson Children's Camp. We recently celebrated our 75th year of helping to support the camp.

National Charity 

Kin Canada has been a partner in the fight against Cystic Fibrosis since 1964. During this time, Kin members have raised over $41 million in support of the work of Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

Cystic Fibrosis Canada 

In August 2013, the Kinsmen Club of Greater London received the Bill Skelly Award on behalf of Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush for raising funds and awareness for Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

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