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Barry Howson

1939–

Canada

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Barry Howson (born 17 June 1939) is a Canadian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics, and was the first Black Canadian member of Canada's Olympic basketball team. He was the son of Frank Howson and Christine DeGroat Jenkins; his mother was the publisher of The Dawn of Tomorrow, an important early Black Canadian community newspaper which had been founded by her first husband James Jenkins.

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