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Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Vancouver, Canada | May 8, 1920|||||||||||||||||
Died | January 26, 2017 Burnaby, Canada | (aged 96)|||||||||||||||||
Education | B.Ed. (1959) | |||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of British Columbia | |||||||||||||||||
Occupation | teacher | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | athletics | |||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 11 March 2017 |
Barbara Catherine Howard was a Canadian athlete who participated in the 1938 British Empire Games and later became a physical education teacher. She is believed to have been the first black woman to have represented Canada in a major sports competition, and she was the first member of a visible minority to be hired as a teacher by the Vancouver school board.[1]
Early Life
editHoward was the youngest of the four children of Cassie Scurry, of Winnipeg, and Samuel Howard, from Alabama. When her father died in 1929, her uncle, Charle's Scurry, assumed some responsibility for his sister and her children.[1] Barbara Howard showed consistent promise as an athlete in primary school and high school; she won numerous races and relays.[2] However, her 1937 performance as a Grade 11 student in a time trial, when she completed 100 yards in 11.2 seconds, besting the Empire Games record by one-tenth of a second, earned her a place on the 1938 Canadian team.[1]
year of normal school[3]
External links
edit- ^ a b c Tom Hawthorn (7 March 2017). "Obituary: Remembering Barbara Howard, a black athlete who ran her way into history". Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ Wanda Chow (8 February 2011). "90-year-old Burnaby woman was once fastest in British Empire". Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ http://seniorsstories.vcn.bc.ca/2014/10/31/sprinter-barbara-howard-east-van-pe-teacher-2/.
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