Hi, Dan--
Welcome to the WCHA and to ownership of a wood and canvas canoe!
Old Town 119474 is a 16 foot CS (common sense) grade Yankee model canoe finished between October 1936 and March 1937. It has open spruce gunwales, oak decks/thwarts/seat frames and a keel. It was painted fire red and shipped to Boutell's in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 1, 1937. (I grew up in Minneapolis and knew this business to be a high-end furniture store that also had an "outdoor store", where they carried quality outdoor furniture and sporting equipment.)
There's interesting information on the Yankee model in past discussions, which you should be able to find using the "search" function above and putting in "yankee". Feel free to ask questions though. Sue Audette's book, "Old Town, Our First Hundred Years" can make Old Town owners even prouder of their new old boat... and Stelmok and Thurlow's "The Wood and Canvas Canoe" can help you wrap your brain around fix-up questions.
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.
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.
Kathy
