Here’s a sweet treat.

As we wait for the NCAA Tournament to begin, bringing with it one of my favorite Heritage Minutes, we’ll take a quick look at a piece of Canada’s history that most of us can agree over a nice weekend breakfast is a pretty good deal: Maple syrup.

This week’s Heritage Minute doesn’t really provide any kind of time element, but shows some indigenous people in Canada tapping a maple tree and making what is believed to be one of the first batches of delicious maple syrup known to man.

In the video, they share their new delicacy with white Canadian settlers, who quickly took up the pasttime and mass produced it, as the woman at the end proudly writes to the King of England some years later that “thanks to the help of our Indian friends, we have produced more than 3,000 pounds of this sweet gift.”

Heritage Minutes are 60-second short films that are shown in between some TV shows in Canada — and they’re amazing. We’re planning to bring you a “Heritage Minute” every Thursday on COTW.

Enjoy.