User:SewerCat/Barbara Howard (athlete)
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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]
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Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||
Born | (1920-05-08)May 8, 1920 Vancouver, Canada | |||||||||||||||||
Died | January 26, 2017(2017-01-26) (aged 96) Burnaby, Canada | |||||||||||||||||
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 |
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