Detailed References to Historical Pages
1) Velocipede! Velocipede! Montreal Evening Star, 3 August 1869
(2) Lacrosse Grounds Location , Don Morrow, A Sporting Evolution : The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association 1881-1981, 1981, page 31
(3) Karl Kron, 10,000 Miles on a Bicycle, 1887, page 330
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"Indeed, the first trail made on this continent by the rubber tire of a modem bicycle is accredited to A. T. Lane, one of the founders of the Montreal B. C, who imported thither a 50 in. Coventry in season to take his first ride July i, 1874 ; while H. S. Tibbs, captain of the same club, took a 300-m. tour in England that same year."
(4) "Our City and Our Sports", Official Program of the 12th Annual Meet, Canadian Wheelmen's Association page 36
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(5) Andrew Ritchie, Major Taylor: The extraordinary career of a champion bicycle racer, 1988 page 127
(6) Montreal Bicycle Club Minute Book, Montreal Amateur Athletic Association MG 28 I 351 Vol 10, Micro Film Reel H-1876 image 133
National Archives of Canada
(7) Glen Norcliffe, Critcal Geographies of Cycling, 2015 page 135
(8) Montreal Bicycle Club Minute Book, Montreal Amateur Athletic Association MG 28 I 351 Vol 10, Micro Film Reel H-1876 image 136
National Archives of Canada
(9) "Our City and Our Sports", Official Program of the 12th Annual Meet, Canadian Wheelmen's Association page 37
https://archive.org/details/cihm_00944
(10) Montreal Bicycle Club Minute Book, Montreal Amateur Athletic Association MG 28 I 351 Vol 10, Micro Film Reel H-1876 image 145
National Archives of Canada
(11) Don Morrow, A Sporting Evolution : The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association 1881-1981, 1981, page 41
(12) Canadian Illustrated News, February 19 1870