CAN-BIKE
in the 1980s. The 1988 Canadian Cycling Association Recreation
and Transportation Sector's Education Steering Committee at
a meeting in Vancouver: (left to right) Denys Beams, Christine
Code, Barbara Bernhardt, Bruce Timmermans, Danelle Laidlaw,
Charles Laframbois, Howard Skrypnik, Don Hollingshead. |
History
of CAN-BIKE
The
Canadian Cycling Association introduced the CAN-BIKE program
in 1985, with the publication of Bicycling II Course Instructors'
Guide, by Daniel Egan, Chair of the CCA Education Committee.
However, the CCA had been developing empirically based cycling
education programs for some time. Cycling Freedom for Women,
by Barbara Bernhardt, was introduced in 1983. Earlier, a group
of instructors in British Columbia had travelled to Seattle
to certify as Effective Cycling instructors under the supervision
of John Forster. Upon their return to Canada, those instructors
developed a distinctively Canadian version of the program,
later to become known as CAN-BIKE.
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