1905 Chestnut
This is the earliest known ad for the Chestnut Canoe Company.
This is the earliest known ad for the Chestnut Canoe Company.
The Chestnut family started marketing canvas canoes in the late 1890s in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The early Chestnut canoes were modelled after a canoe built by B.N.
This is Chestnut's Catalog B, which dates to circa 1930 based on date references within the catalog.
The last two pages of the PDF are a separate page about the Labrador model that was inserted in to the catalog.
This catalog was used in both 1976 and 1977.