Welcome and congratulations, the Old Town canoe with serial number 115347 is an 18 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, Otca model with red Western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, twenty inch ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, a keel, and outside stems. It was built between January, 1935 and May, 1936. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on May 28th, 1936 to Houston, Texas. A scan of this build record can be found 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 donate or join the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See
https://www.woodencanoe.org/about to learn more about the WCHA and
https://www.woodencanoe.org/shop to donate or join.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe. If you don't want to keep this canoe then a WCHA classified listing is usually the fastest way to find a good new home for it. The information at
http://forums.wcha.org/index.php?threads/16513/ outlines the process. The messages at
http://forums.wcha.org/index.php?threads/57/ may help if you aren't sure how to value it. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Good luck with the decisions,
Benson