Donated To WCHM From The Collection of Brigid and Charles Beroux

     ​Brigid Geroux of Eau Claire (WI) recently donated a 1927 Old Town Yankee with serial number 94922 to the Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum. The original Old Town build slip shows it was built to order for the Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Michigan. While teaching at the complex of schools in 1990, Brigid and her late husband Charles came upon the canoe stored under a porch. After purchasing it from the school, they went about researching and meticulously restoring the canoe, going so far as to travel to the Old Town factory in Maine to purchase new gunwales. They used the canoe every summer for the next thirty years, until Charles passed away in 2023. It now resides in perpetuity as part of the WCHM Collections.

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