Congratulations, the Old Town canoe with serial number 131206 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Yankee model with open spruce gunwales, ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, a keel and a floor rack. It was built between December, 1940 and February, 1941. The original exterior paint color was orange with a black hair line stripe. You may be able to do some paint archeology if you have the original canvas. This may have been similar to the one shown at
http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design20.gif with a thinner stripe which was known as the design number 20. It was shipped on May 14th, 1941 to the New York department store Macy & Company at the store’s warehouse in Long Island City, NY. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below.
This scan and several hundred thousand more were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. A description of the project to preserve these records is available at
http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/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-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and
http://www.wcha.org/store/membership 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