Old Town wood & canvas canoe in Europe

Bill TRAPPEUR

Curious about Wooden Canoes
Would have an idea of the number of canoés wood and canvas OT Otca and others model OT in Europe and particularly in France.
I ask myself this question, because I did not see many Europeans on the forum.
Can be that I badly looked.
Bill
 
A sample database of the Old Town records has been created as described at http://wcha.org/ot_records/ and used to estimate the total production of the more popular canoes as described at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/models.html but this technique doesn't work very well for the less common shipping destinations like France. This database has four French canoes as shown in the build records attached below. I would guess that a total of a few hundred canoes may have been shipped there. The Old Town catalogs listed French dealers from 1908 to 1922 as shown in the two pages attached below. There are not many Europeans on this forum so we are glad that you have joined. Please reply here if this doesn't answer your questions. Thanks,

Benson
 

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I thank you for this invaluable information, what it will be interesting to know it is the approximate number of these canoés still in condition to navigate and which would have survived as some both wars! But I think that shall be it a work difficult to see impossible.
Mine survived the Second World War, and I find fabulous to navigate with a canoé steeped in history, especially when we know a part(party) of this history(story), it is one of magic part(party) of this type(chap) of navigation(browsing), and it is for it, if you have additional information do not hesitate to publish them.
Of my quoted(esteemed) I would make this great forum known to all the owners of canoés former(old) whom I shall meet on the gatherings of enthusiasts.
My boat also comes from "Salon Nautique" to Neuilly sur Seine, as two of the canoés mentioned in your answer, but as on my index card(form) there was no street, I thought that the command(order) was intended for a nautical exhibition(exposure) and not for a store of this name.
Thank you
Bill
Excuse my Englishman, translation made by automatic translator.
 
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