18' Old Town Wood/Canvas Canoe (1901)

This is a canoe from the Indian Old Town Canoe Company with serial number 201. There are no build records that go back this far but it is probably circa 1901 when this company started advertising. This was the first form of the organization that eventually became the Old Town Canoe Company on January 23rd, 1903. It appears to be a GG model based on the dimensions. The original cane lashings on the bow and stern are similar to a bark canoe. This canoe is now able to be used again, a hundred and twenty years after it left the factory.