OTTAWA RIVER and steam tug
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 7:32 pm
In 1992 Canada issued a strip of five stamps which shows us five famous waterways in Canada, only one stamp shows a vessel, a steam-tug which pulls a log raft on the Ottawa River, the tug till so far is not identified. The design is a little strange, it looks that the tug is under full steam and heading straight for the rocks, very near to the tug is a log raft, but I can’t see of the raft is connected to the tug.
The Ottawa River was the link between Montreal and the interior for early fur trading voyageurs and she is now a highway for Canadian commerce for over 300 years. It was also famous for the log-driving runs, supplying timber for colonists to build the new nation. Its strategic location, joining Ontario and Quebec, led to the decision to designate a town on its banks as the capital of the new Dominion.
Nowadays white-water rafting has replaced timber rafting on the river, and is an important contribution to Ottawa’s status as a world-class tourism destination.
Watercraft Philately 1993 page 38
Canada 1992 42c sg1494, scott1410.
The Ottawa River was the link between Montreal and the interior for early fur trading voyageurs and she is now a highway for Canadian commerce for over 300 years. It was also famous for the log-driving runs, supplying timber for colonists to build the new nation. Its strategic location, joining Ontario and Quebec, led to the decision to designate a town on its banks as the capital of the new Dominion.
Nowadays white-water rafting has replaced timber rafting on the river, and is an important contribution to Ottawa’s status as a world-class tourism destination.
Watercraft Philately 1993 page 38
Canada 1992 42c sg1494, scott1410.