Your friend's canoe appears to be very restoration-worthy! It looks like a 17'-long Old Town from the WWII era. The photos don't provide much detail but it will probably need a significant restoration to make it structurally sound and water-worthy. But that's doable. If you enjoy woodworking and wood finishing, a wooden canoe is a real treat and a great learning experience, plus you'll end up with a gorgeous wooden canoe that you'll love paddling and that will make you proud. If you don't want to take it on yourself, there are canoe restorers scattered everywhere who do excellent work (
http://wcha.org/builders-and-suppliers-directory).
You've already found the best website for wooden canoes. Join the WCHA as a member and you'll also get the beautiful and informative magazine,
Wooden Canoe, six times per year. It's filled with inspirational stories of canoeing, canoe building and restoration, history and more. Join here:
http://wcha.org/membership
For more information on restoration, first get more photos and post them here. These forums contain tons of great information and lots of knowledgeable people willing to help. The WCHA store (
http://wcha.org/store) provides the best books on the subject including:
The Wood & Canvas Canoe: A Complete Guide to its History, Construction, Restoration and Maintenance, by Stelmok & Thurlow
This Old Canoe: How to Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe, by Mike Elliott
Look through the store - there are lots more great books, and you can even get a period-correct reproduction Old Town decal for the deck of your restored canoe!