n. — Quebec, Food
a traditional pie made with maple sugar and cream.
Type: 4. Culturally Significant — Sugar pie, along with its main ingredient, maple syrup, is associated with Quebec cuisine (see, e.g. the 2002 quotation). The associations are extended to the province of Quebec, where most of Canada's maple syrup industry is located, and to Canada in general (see maple leaf, Maple Leaf (flag)).
See also COD-2, s.v. "sugar pie", which is marked "Cdn esp. (Que)", and OED-3, s.v. "sugar pie", which is marked "esp. (in Quebec)".