The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company is the rollicking good story of the politics and people that shaped High Victorian Toronto. When big-money railway owners wanted to run the Sunday streetcar, they faced violent opposition from those who believed it was a desecration of the Sabbath. But ultimately, the robber barons won and the cars ran on Sunday-just as the first great bicycle craze began. Everybody bought bikes-some of them from the Methodist Bicycle
Company-and the Sunday streetcars were virtually empty. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs from the period, this attractive Wynford edition brings this classic Toronto story to a new generation of readers.

Christopher Armstrong is Professor of History at York University. His numerous books on Canadian history have won critical acclaim, and in 2002 he received the Ontario History Society JJ Talman Award for his study of Canadian capital markets in Moose Pastures and Mergers: The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980.
H.V. Nelles is the L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History at McMaster University. He has written widely on Canada's history, and his book, The Art of Nation Building, won the Sir John A. MacDonald Prize for the Best Book in Canadian history and Le Prix Clio for the best book on Quebec history.