Want to learn more about an early Canadian woman professional athlete? She is Louise Armaindo (1857-1900) —
a 
strongwoman, trapeze artist, pedestrienne, and most importantly a high-wheel bicycle racer. Read my most recent book, Muscle on Wheels: Louise Armaindo and the High-Wheel Racers of Nineteeth-Century America, now available from McGill-Queen’s University Press.
M. Ann Hall 