December 06, 2012 (Ottawa, ON) – Check out Ottawa-based journalist Kris Westwood’s blog and his Canadian Cycling History Project that he recently launched. A former national team member Westwood also ran the national team program for a couple of years for Cycling Canada when it was the CCA.

Canada has a big place in the history of cycling but it can be hard to find any information about it. A few books have been published over the years — Freewheeling: The Story of Bicycling in Canada by William Humber; Old Roads and New by J.B. Wadley; Six Days of Madness by Ted Harper. But the most recent of these was published in 1993, and they’re all out of print.

There are other resources out there, but little of it is available online, and that’s what I’m trying to change with this project.

I have all of the books I’ve listed above, as well as some research of my own, what’s available online and a historical record of Canadian results compiled by G.A. Peters in 1972 with the help of Russ Coupland, Keith Jones, Ian Jobling and Ken Smith. This binder was sent to Peter McCaffrey in 1992 and somehow ended up at the Canadian Cycling Association offices, where I rescued it from obscurity.

I have started to compile this information on my website, and I could use some help… read more here.