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.