What type of canoe is this?

[Ralph]

I stumbled upon this advertisement and while I'm not interested in purchasing, I am interested in knowing more about the canoe. It says "Cedar strip" but it looks more like a wood canvas but the exterior looks like birch bark or is it just made to look like birch bark. What is it?
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16' Cedar Strip Canoe. Made by Red House Canoes in Fenwick, Ontario. It was built as a moose hunting canoe. Light weight, water tight and capable of carrying a heavy load. It has some of the clear coat peeling, but does not affect performance and an easy fix with a new coat. Comes with two hand made paddles, a storage box built for the canoe, and stabilizers.

 

[Benson Gray]

See the link below for a similar example.

Benson

Mystery Canoe

Hi all, Has anyone an idea what brand of wood/canvas canoe the one in attached photos could be? I suspect it to be Canadian built. There are no decals, numbers or markings. Some key features: -16 ft in length, 33 inch beam and 12 inch deep. -Two thwarts. -Seats with rawhide seat...

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[Glenn MacGrady]

I'm wondering what those black doohickeys are on the ends of the thwart. I'm guessing they are involved with attaching the stabilizers, whatever they are.

 

[recped]

It says "Cedar strip" but it looks more like a wood canvas but the exterior looks like birch bark or is it just made to look like birch bark. What is it?

I'm from Ontario, my family owned a Peterborough and when it was stolen in the mid-60's a Lakefield, both were w/c and both plus any of the same type were always referred to as "cedar strip" in these parts.

Tarting them up as faux birch bark was somewhat common especially for the lower priced "cottage canoes".

Jim Holman the builder/owner of Red House died in 2016.

James Holman - Friday, July 1st, 2016

Holman, James Edward May 14, 1924 - July 1, 2016 Boyhood dreams of adventure and Alaska and aviation were interrupted by a world war from which he returned never again quite the same man he had been, yet still managed an iconoclastic and celebrated life through his wood working and other...

www.pelhamfuneralhome.ca

Ben Collings shared a story about James Holman

I was a neighbour of Jim and Marion in Fenwick for many years and got to know Jim through our neighbour Jerry Benner. Jim was into everything wood and when he obtained a slab cutting attachment for his chain saw I would often help him cut boards of oak for gunnells etc. While helping him I...

www.pelhamfuneralhome.ca

 

[ppine]

It is a very cool canoe. The birch bark does not look real, but who knows? Is is possible that there is a layer of fiberglass on the hull? I have never seen anything like it.

 

[Ralph]

Interesting story about the builder. I didn't know that builders would go to such lengths to make a canoe look like birch bark (it looks difficult to me).
I, too, think that the black doohickeys are for the stabilizers - whatever they are. The ad had a picture of the storage box but no picture of the stabilizers.


Thanks everyone.