 Hi, my name is Emily and welcome to the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation in Ottawa. This artifact storage facility is 3,300 square meters in size and contains just over 1,800 artifacts, which represent the museum's transportation and agricultural collections. The following short video will highlight a few of these technologies. Used by loggers along the Ottawa River near Pembroke from 1900 to 1940, this John A. Cockburn Pointer Boat was manufactured in roughly 1900. The Pointer Boat, or log-driving bateau, played an important part in the annual drives of the 19th and early 20th century and remains one of the most evocative symbols of the efforts and skill needed to bring timber to mill and market. As a technology, the Pointer Boat is a direct descendant of one of Canada's oldest and most important small craft types, the bateau. When, early in the 19th century, the bateau's general importance was diminished by the introduction of other boat types. Its qualities, strong and expensive construction, shallow draft and sea worthiness were adopted and developed by the lumbermen of eastern Canada. Among the best-known Pointer Boat builders were the Cockburns, who constructed these vessels in Pembroke, Ontario for three generations, beginning in the late 1860s. The great log drives of the eastern forest, celebrated in song and captured in this canvas by Tom Thompson and the group of seven, are an established part of Canada's cultural heritage. To learn more about our collections, please visit the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Agriculture Museum, or check us out online.