Canoe Guy BC: A Restorer’s Guide to an Old Town Otca Wood-Canvas Canoe

The brand name Old Town is synonymous with canvas-covered canoes in the United States.  They are one of the only canoe companies to survive to the present day from their humble beginnings behind the Gray hardware store in Old Town, Maine, in 1898.  George and Samuel Gray incorporated the Old Town Canoe Company in 1901.