General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Cedar planks with copper or brass nails. Canvas between the two layers of cedar.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

30.7 cm

Width

32.0 cm

Height

4.7 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Marine Transportation

Category

Vessel parts

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

GILLESSE

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Daniel Herald trained as a shipwright and started his own business as a canoe builder in 1862. In 1880 he formed a partnership with John Hutchinson, known as Herald & Hutchinson until 1890 when Daniel Herald died. The business was then taken over by Daniel’s sons and the company became the Herald Bros Canoe Co. It was later renamed the Rice Lake Canoe Company. The family sold the business in 1920 and it may have been subsumed by the Peterborough Canoe Co.

Function

Interior section of a canoe to show its structure and design.

Technical

This section of canoe shows the distinctive design used by the Herald Bros Canoe Company Co. Made of cedar and fitted with a mast step and collar so that it could be rigged for sailing. The term “patent” refers to the mould used in the building of the canoe. Herald developed a technique of double-skin construction, resulting in canoes of exceptional strength and possessing a smooth inner skin. Herald also used moulds for rib and batten model canoes.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

none apparent

Missing

N/A

Finish

Clear lacquered cedar planks which are 10.2 cm wide fastened with either copper or brass nails (?). There two planks one on top of each other with a single layer of canvas between them. There is a rectangular cutaway on one corner of the section model .

Decoration

N/A