John Henry Rushton built canoes and small boats in Canton, New York, from 1875 until his death in 1906. His son incorporated the business and kept it going until 1917. In 1902, Rushton hired M. Roundry from the B. N. Morris Canoe Company to build canvas-covered canoes. The result is the Indian Girl canoe that became Rushton’s best-selling model. It was first built with double gunwales until about 1906, when the open-gunwale system was adopted. The dimensions for components in a closed-gunwa...
