Hi Craig,
Old Town 117719 is a 16 foot CS (common sense or middle) grade HW model canoe that was completed April-June of 1936. It has Western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, oak decks, thwarts, and seat frames, sponsons and a keel. Originally it was painted dark green. It was sent to Point Pleasant, NJ, on June 18, 1936.
If your canoe is indeed an Otca, this isn't the record for your canoe. Double-check the serial number on each stem and compare. The Otca in 1936 had a 20" deck with coaming, and the HW had the traditional Old Town short deck. The difference is pictured at
www.dragonfly.com/id/ -- scroll to "Old Town" on the left.
If sponsons were desired, the HW was the model most likely to get them. If this seems like it's the right canoe but your canoe doesn't have sponsons, it may still have the two small hand-carry thwarts that Old Town put on sponson canoes and there may be evidence of screws along the sides, where the sponsons were attached.
If you're unsure that this is the correct record, post pictures and we'll check it out! 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.
Kathy