User:SewerCat/Barbara Howard (athlete)

Barbara Howard
At the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney
Personal information
NationalityCanadian
Born(1920-05-08)May 8, 1920
Vancouver, Canada
DiedJanuary 26, 2017(2017-01-26) (aged 96)
Burnaby, Canada
EducationB.Ed. (1959)
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
Occupationteacher
Sport
Sportathletics
Medal record
Representing  Canada
Women's Athletics
British Empire Games
Silver medal – second place 1938 Sydney 2x110 220 yards
Bronze medal – third place 1938 Sydney 2x220 2x110 yards
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

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Howard 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]


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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Wanda Chow (8 February 2011). "90-year-old Burnaby woman was once fastest in British Empire". Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  3. ^ http://seniorsstories.vcn.bc.ca/2014/10/31/sprinter-barbara-howard-east-van-pe-teacher-2/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)