Published: August 13, 2013
It was in May 1937 that Maple Ridge’s own Margery Saunders clinched the victory in the Vancouver Daily Province’s annual Bike Race.
The race course looped around Stanley Park, in the year before it was cut in two by the new Lions Gate Bridge and its causeway.
At the time, the Maple Ridge–Pitt Meadows Gazette gloated: “So grueling was the last few hundred yards that the runner-up, Ms. Leiper, collapsed right after crossing the finish tape.
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