From a paper by SFU student Erica Hirschberger:
Early 1900’s: The bicycle is a popular form of transportation. Archivist Major James Skitt Matthews observes in 1931:
The “machines” were so numerous that the City Council ordered special bicycle paths constructed on those streets which were most frequently used. These paths were invariably cinder surfaced, and rolled flat, and ran along the edge of the street between the gutter and wooden sidewalk. They were about six feet wide, and constantly kept in order, level and smooth, by city workmen.
Woman on bicycle: Granville Street looking north from about Dunsmuir Street, c.1900 – Vancouver Archives.
