February is Black History Month PROUD OF OUR HISTORY 1 10 2015 • The Year of Sport in Canada 9 2 5 7 6 3 8 4 1) Barbara Howard, Track and Field - First black female athlete to represent Canada in international competition (Photo credit: BC Sports Hall of Fame) 6) Perdita Felicien, Track and Field - Two-time Pan Am Games silver medallist and world champion hurdler 2) Candace Chapman, Soccer - Bronze medallist at 2012 Olympic Summer Games (Photo credit: Canada Soccer/Mexsport) 7) Willie O’Ree, Hockey - First black player in the National Hockey League (Boston Bruins, 1958) (Photo credit: NHL/Getty Images) 3) Harry Jerome, Track and Field - 100-metre bronze medallist at 1964 Olympic Summer Games 8) Anthony Bennett, Basketball - First Canadian to be selected first overall in the National Basketball Association draft 4) Valerie Jerome, Track and Field - 1960 Olympian and 100-metre national champion 9) Ferguson Jenkins, Baseball - Cy Young Award winner and first Canadian inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (1991) 5) John Armstrong Howard, Track and Field - First black Canadian to run in the Olympic Summer Games (Stockholm, 1912) (Photo credit: Harry and Valerie Jerome fonds, Simon Fraser University Special Collections MsC- 2.5) (Photo credit: Fergie Jenkins Foundation) 10) Marjorie Turner-Bailey, Track and Field - 1976 Olympian and two-time Pan Am Games bronze medallist (Photo credit:The Black Loyalist Heritage Society) LEARN MORE AT CANADA.CA/BLACKHISTORYMONTH
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