Welcome and congratulations, my guess is that you have the Old Town canoe with serial number 27362. This 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, maple thwarts, maple seats, spruce outside finish rails, and a keel. It was built in June, 1913. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on June, 30th, 1913 to Chicago, Illinois. 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 more 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/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 join.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. This is not the usual way to canvas a canoe as you probably know. The outer gunwales are missing and the rail caps appear to be replacements. This canoe was made before Old Town started using diamond headed bolts so you aren't likely to find any under the canvas. See
http://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?threads/12413/ for some pictures of how your canoe probably looked when it left the factory. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
