Who Was Emery Barnes ?assignment #6

My assignment is about Emery Barnes ,by reading this assignment you'll learn about Emery Barnes and how great his contribution was to Canada and the world.

Emery Barnes was born in Louisiana in the year of 1929 and raised as a child with his mother who was also a single mother in Oregon. Louisiana is located in the south of the u.s at the time of black slavery,good thing he was raised in Oregon.

Emery Barnes was a really good athlete and competed in the 1952olylpictic games at age of 23, he was a high jumper.He also played for the B.C Lions for three years,he was champion in 1964 but he could not play caused by a injury

He has many places name after him like Emery Barnes park. He died in British Columbia, on July 1, 1998