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The Old Town canoe with serial number 34483 is a 17 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, HW (heavy water) model with red western cedar planking, closed spruce gunwales, maple decks, and a keel. It was built between October, 1914 and February 1915. The original exterior paint color was B. (bright?) red. It shipped on April 27th, 1915 to Middletown, Conn. A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image below.

This scan and several hundred thousand others were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others. A description of the project to preserve these records is available at http://www.wcha.org/ot_records/ if you want more details. I hope that you will join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/about-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html to renew.

It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions,

Benson
 

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Thanks Benson, A daughter wants me to restore the canoe for her father. Pictures will follow once I recieve the canoe. Pete
 
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