Hi Carol Ann,
The build record Benson posted is the best we can do here unless someone who knows this particular canoe happens to be viewing this thread and chimes in (which seems extremely unlikely). There is no way for our organization to systematically help with ownership history on canoes. Many thousands of wooden canoes have been built over many years by many manufacturers, and ownership details on most of them are lost to history. Yours is a fairly recent canoe, being
only a half-century old (!), so you might have some luck in tracing its history yourself. The place to start, obviously, is with the auctioneer, but auction organizers are often unwilling or unable to provide contact information for previous owners who themselves may wish to maintain their privacy. In short, getting detailed history on an old canoe can be fun and possibly even important, but it is also tough.
We often hear of canoes (like many other things) having been owned by someone "special" but these are often just stories. Even so, famous people are still people, and many have owned and paddled canoes. In this story said to be by Andy Rooney, he describes his family having two canoes on "a lake in northern New York State."
www.ihavenet.com
The same story also describes the family's outboard motor boat, a rowboat, and a Hacker runabout. Here is an inboard for sale, said to have been owned by Andy Rooney but it's a Chris Craft, not a Hacker:
Michael
