welcome!
The XX is one of the Old Town models that never made it into the catalogs... except for that 1906 power canoe picture, which is discussed in this older post:
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?t=439&highlight=xx+power+canoe
It would be nice to verify if your canoe is indeed an XX, to get a better grasp on the details of this special model and put pictures in the picture-section of these forums to aid identification.
I'll post the build record so you can check details with your canoe, although how much of what was original to the canoe may be difficult to determine. These old build records are interesting, and whether or not it's the correct record for your canoe, others here may learn a bit from seeing it.
Old Town 11275 is a 17 foot CS (common sense, or mid-grade) XX model canoe. Planking is red Western cedar. Gunwales are closed and made of spruce. Decks are 20" and ash, and the thwarts and seat frames are spruce--- this is not commonly seen--- most of the time, we see the thwarts and seats made of hardwood that is the same wood species as the decks. Perhaps this was a weight-saving measure, or something unique to the XX(?) I know next to nothing about the XX, which is one reason I wanted to walk through this build record.
The canoe was originally dark green with what appears to be "Orin G" on the right and left sides of the bow, in yellow.
The canoe was shipped to Troy, New York, on July 21, 1909.
Perhaps a little archeology will determine whether this is the correct record. It can be helpful to add more pictures, as multiple eyes and opinions can work to sort things out... and we all learn in the process.
The scan of this record is attached below-- click on it to get a larger image. 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 and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See
http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and
http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.
Kathy