While Calgary continues to develop as a cycling friendly city, it’s worth noting that the practice of pedalling around town was popular here more than a century ago. The below page from the Calgary Daily Herald on April 7, 1917 was filled with ads and articles touting the health and financial benefits of cycling, and how even “fashionable ladies” were riding bikes. One article on the page featured the story of a man who was still an active cyclist at the ripe old age of 63. (Of course, life expectancy in Canada for a male a century ago was a shockingly low 58.8 years of age, StatsCan says.) Read More