Montreal Bicycle Club Scrapbook
1892 Montreal Bicycle Club Notman Composite Photograh
This 1892 Notman photograph came to our attention via an email sent to us in April 2020 from a rare book dealer in Pennsylvania. It set off a flurry of study by the club.
Moulin Fleming in Lasalle April 12, 2020
The composite's background is the Moulin Fleming in Lasalle and is used as a symbol for that city. The windmill, rebuilt in 1827 originally had four blades however it was no longer in use by the end of the 19th century and by 1892, the year of the composite photo was taken, the windmill lost two of it's blades. Sadly there are no blades at all on the windmill now.
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1886 Photo of windmill showing 4 arms.
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The 1886 photo shows a building to the lower right of the windmill. According to the historical this would have been the wood shed (no. 7) . This shed is not present in the 1892 composite, and the composite's utility poles appear to have been built sometime between the two photos.
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The 1891 Montreal Bicycle Club minute book reported the following officers: president A. T. Lane, first vice G. Kingan, second vice H. Mackenzie, secretary A. Harries, treasurer W. S. Weldon, captain Louis Rubenstein, first lieutenant D.S. Louson, second lieutenant F.E. Adams, committee W.G. Ross, E.W. Barlow, D.S. Louson, J.E. Walsh. Their photos as well as two others should appear in the upper vignettes (12 officers are mentioned and there are 14 vignettes).
Vignettes, with rank and name
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V1. unknown
V2. unknown V3. unknown V4. treasurer W. S. Weldon V5. second lieutenant F.E. Adams V6. first lieutenant D.S. Louson V7. captain Louis Rubenstein, V8. president A. T. Lane, 1891 Individual Photo not found V9. first vice G. Kingan V10. second vice H. Mackenzie V11. unknown V12. W.G. Ross ?? V13. unknown V14. committee J.E. Walsh |
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G1. Willie Smith NOL
G2. A. Smith G3. G4. R. Dobb NOL G5. William Morrison NOL G6. G7. G8. G9. G10. G11. G12. G13. G14. E. Quevillon G15. H.M. Mackenzie G16. W.G. Ross G17. G18. Mr Packard NOL G19. Mr Hanniford G20. G21. G22. G23. H. Gross G24. H. O'Donoughue G25. G26. G27. G. Kingnan G28. Mr. Patterson G29. G30. G31. G32. G33. A. Adams G34. G35. F. E. Adams G36. L. Rubenstein G37. G38. G39. |
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List of 1891 Notman Composite Individual photos not found in overall Composite
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Mr. Brown 2nd Photo
B. Dixon G. Harries NOL H. O'Donoughue 2nd photo Mr. Paterson S. Saxe NOL Mr. E. Stevens 2nd photo A.A. Simpson A. Smith W. Tately 2nd photo |
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This composite was taken during a transition period between High Wheel (ordinary) and Safety (modern style) bicycles. The Montreal Bicycle club held races for both categories at the MAAA Grounds. An advertisement from that era shows Louis Rubenstein promoted the new Safety Bicycle.
MBC minute book, August 1891 - Montreal Advertisements - Louis Rubenstein "Don't make a monkey of yourself and ride a high wheel"
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Club secretary Arthur. Harries 1892 article in "The Wheel", states that "A composition picture taken by Messrs Notman, 71 members took part in the same" ( third paragraph from end). His article is best viewed here.
The Club Photograph was taken during the transition from Ordinary (High Wheel) bicycles to Safety (modern style) bicycles. The following poster shows races held by the the club during this period. The club minute book also has a hand written list of which members sold how many tickets to the races. It provides an indirect club membership during the time of the photograph.
First page of list of Members who sold tickets to the August 28, 1891 races.
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1891 MBC membership list (from tickets sold)
Photo ID Number 1. W. Antliff - 2. F. E. Adams V5 G35 3. A.W. Adams G33 4. M.E. Authier - 5. E.W. Barlow G66 6. W. Barlow - 1894 Stanley Cup bio 7. J.L. Barlow - 8. H. Brown G49 2nd Photo 9. G.T. Bishop - 10. J. Clark - 11. W. S. Darling - A.J. Darling 1885 Photo 12. G. Diverall - 13. Burton Dixon G40 2nd photo 14. E.R. Eblitt - 15. Freidman - 16. F.G. Gnaedinger Trophy Family 17. H. Gross G23 18. E.V. Hannaford G19 19. F. Henry - 20. W. N. Henry - 21. H. Joyce - 1885 photo 2nd 1885 photo 22. A.E. Jellyman G57 23. Jacobs G56 24. G. Kingnan V9 G27 25. A.B. Kingan - 1894 Stanley Club 26. D.S. Louson V6 G46 27. A. T. Lane - 1880 1885 28. H.R. Loranger - 29. G.S. Low - 1885 30. W.H.G. Mussen - A.T. Mussen 1894 Stanley Cup Mussen Building |
31. H Mckenzie V10 G15 1865 1866
32. J.H. Miller - 33. W. McCaw - 1891 34. H.J.S. Nichol - 1892 35. H. O'Donoughue G22 2nd photo 36. E.H. Pichard - 37. A.E. Paterson G28 2nd photo 38. crossed out 39. E. Quevillon G14 40. J.N. Robertson - 41. L. Rubenstein V7 G36 1883 1883 42. C.A. Reynolds - 1870 1870 43. H. Rowlands G44 44. M. Rubenstein G51 45. J.A. Renaud - 46. W.G. Ross - 1885 1876 1876 1904 47. E.G. Rasicon - 48. A.A, Simpson 1891 Photo 49. F.D. Scott - 50. L.J. Smith - 51. R.F. Smith - 52. Art Smith G2 2nd Photo 53. Stevens G42 2nd Photo 54. G. Smith - 55. J.W. Tately G59 2nd Photo 56. Timmis - 57. F.E. Trurdraw - 58. F.E. Vasey - 59. W. Virtue G63 60. J.E. Walsh V14 61. D.J. Watson - 62. A. Wright - |
Some of the club members were also on the first team to win a Stanley Cup in Hockey.
