Nouvelle 12++ Quebec Maple Syrup Reserve. In 2011 and 2012, $14 million (usd) worth of syrup was stolen from the reserve. It's worth so much that the canadian province of quebec has its own strategic reserve of the stuff like a fort knox for maple syrup spread out over three separate. The theft of 3,000 tons represented 6 percent of a typical crop in québec. Québec has approximately 11,300 maple syrup producers who own 7,400 maple syrup businesses with quotas.