Community Bike Programs: Canada

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If you have bikes to donate many of the organizations on this page are willing recipients. If cannot find an organization on this list in your community, you should also check the programs/organizations listed on our "youth program directory" and "international recycling bicycles" pages.).  Still no luck, check locally for social service agency that serve the homeless, disadvantaged, orphanages, organize gift programs at Christmas, etc.

* To discourage email harvesting the email addresses in this directory are un-hyperlinked and have an extra space in them.  To use the email address: cut-and-paste the address and delete the space before the @ symbol.  For those of you with honorable intentions we are sorry for the inconvenience in communicating with these fine organizations.

(If you have additions or corrections for this list please let us know.)

ALBERTA

Community Cruisers, Canmore, Alberta (in the planning stage, May 2007)

BRITISH COLUMBIA

UBC/AMS Bike Co-op / Bike Kitchen, University of British Columbia, 6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1 Canada. Tel: 604.822.2453 (604.UBC.BIKE). Email: bikecoop @ubc.ca *.  Run a full service and d.i.y. community bike shop, an indoor bike-check facility, engage in bike advocacy and education, teach bike repair and building workshops, and co-ordinate the famous purple and yellow community bike fleet.

BikeWorks, 49 E Hastings St, Vancouver BC Canada. Tel: 604-688-9888. Repairs, sales, and instruction to the public.

Our Community Bikeshop, 3283 Main St, Vancouver BC V5V 3M6 Canada.  Tel: 604-879-2453. Email: info @pedalpower.org *. Programs include:

• providing tools, workstands and guidance for those who wish to repair their own bikes [and thereby becoming more self-sufficient commuter cyclists]
• reconditioning donated bikes and parts destined for the waste stream
• offering courses in bike repair and commuter cycling [in the shop and at workplaces]
• offering courses in bike repair and commuter cycling (in the shop and at workplaces)
• donating bikes to local people and organizations in need · sending bicycles and parts to developing countries [Guatemala, Cuba, Togo]
• offering work experience and occupational therapy to volunteers from social service organizations (JobStart, Sanctuary Foundation, Greater Vancouver Mental Health Association)
• offering a full repair service and new parts/accessories inventory for commuter cyclists OCB serves the cycling needs of low income people in the Lower Mainland, however our customers come from all economic and cultural backgrounds. OCB is self-funded through our business earnings.

Recyclistas Bike Collective, 25 Crease Ave, Victoria BC, V8Z1S4 Canada. Tel: 250-418-8867.  Teach bike repair classes, let people use tools for an hourly rate and have a lot of parts.  Sponsors the "Bike Lab", community outreach program, to teach kids in high schools and university students how to fix their own bikes at their school location.

MANITOBA

Bike Dump, 594 Main St. (access through back door via. back lane off Logan Ave.), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Email: bikepunks @bike-dump.ca *. Get free help doing repairs or maintenance on your bike, offers periodic bicycle repair and maintenance workshops, and sell low-cost, recycled bicycles.

NOVA SCOTIA

Bike Again! Community Project, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Email: bikeagain @hotmail.com *. Over 60 volunteers and two part time staff distribute bikes on short term and long term loans.  The goal is to increase the number of cyclists on the streets and to provide an affordable place to get bikes and to fix them.

ONTARIO

Kingston Yellow Bike Action, 23 Carlisle, Kingston Ontario K7K 3X1 Canada. Tel: 613.545-0404. Toll free in Cnd: 877-613-8122.  Email: yellowbikeaction@ gmail.com *.  Provides affordable rentals (Yellow Bikes), free bikes for kids, access to tools and parts (for a small fee) and a non-hierarchical environment where people can teach each other about bike repair and other activities which increase self-reliance (like silkscreening and VCR repair).  (see program story)

Recycle Cycles, 43 Queen Street South, Kitchener, Ontario N2G 1V6 Canada.  Tel: 519-749-9177 x222.  Contact: Jesse Robertson. Start in 1993 in associated with the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group.

Re-Cycle Bicycle Coop, 112 Nelson St (1/2 block north or Rideau Street), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  Email: re-cycles @flora.org  *

BikeShare, 761 Queen St. W., Toronto Ontario, M6J 1G1 Canada.  Tel: 416 504 2918. Email: bikeshare @communitybicyclenetwork.org *.  Contact: Maogosha Pyjor.  To reduce theft, BikeShare users to be members.  Memberships require four hours of volunteer work or Cnd$25.  BikeShare is part of the Community Bike Network. Email: cbn @connection.com *.

QUEBEC

Club de Velo - Freewheel - Bicycle Club, garage behind 6200 de Châteaubriand, at the corner of Bellechasse, Métro Beaubien, Montreal Quebec, Canada.. Tel: 514-278-4906. Email: freewheels @hotmail.com *

Freewheels Bicycle Club, 6141 Dagenais, Montreal-Nord, Quebec H1G 1M6 Canada. Tel: 514-327-2709

La voie Libre/Right to Move, c/o QPIRG, c/o Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve ouest, Montréal, Québec, H3G 1M8 Canada. Tel.: 514-999-4885. Email: info @rtm-lvl.org *  Public-access bike shop open weekday evenings, 50 weeks a year.

Velogik, 1480 De l'Eglise, Saint Laurent, Quebec, H4L 2H6, Canada. Tel: 514-855-1616. Email: velogik @cgestlaurent.org *

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Prince Edward Island Coop, PEI Canada (in the planning stage, July 2003)

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