Henry “Harry” Jerome was born on September 30, 1940, in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. After living for a brief time in Winnipeg, Manitoba, his family moved to North Vancouver, BC, in 1951. Harry and his sister Valerie were both shy and soft spoken. Initially, they were the only black students in their North Vancouver schools.

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