Old Town serial # 154453__16

The Old Town canoe with serial number 154453 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, low end HW (heavy water) model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, thwarts in place of seats, and a keel. It was built between June and July, 1950. The original exterior paint color was aluminum. It shipped on February 20th, 1951 to Scranton, Pennsylvania. A scan of this build record can be found below.

This scan and several hundred thousand others were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. 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, join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/about-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to join.

It is 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.

Benson