Mr. A. T. Lane and bicycle, Bicycle Club, Montreal, QC, 1885
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1874 - Brought the first High Wheel Bicycle to Montreal.
1878 - One of the three original founders of the MBC. 1894 - President of CWA during Sarnia to Montreal Relay Ride, CWA Montreal Meet Sold Bicycles and Bicycle Parts, lifetime member of MBC and MAAA A. T. Lane and Master Lane with bicycles, Montreal, QC, 1880
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From Karl Kron's 10,000 Miles on a Bicycle
"As the main roads of the Dominion show a better average excellence than those of the Union, there is a certain appropriateness in the fact that the earliest-printed of American road- books should be the work of Dominion wheelmen. 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"
A.T. Lane's shop was located on Ste Catherine Street, near the North East Corner with Peel.