Rugged workboats of this type were used mainly in the spring to guide logs down the swollen rivers towards the sawmills. Also known as drive boats of lumbermen's bateaux, pointers were used extensively from the first half of the nineteenth century until the 1960's , by which time they were made obsolete by logging roads and trucks that could be used year round. This miniature pointer was built by John Cockburn of Pembroke, Ontario, to the same design used by his grandfather 100 years earlier.
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