Editing Howard McCurdy (section)

==Early life==
Born in [[London, Ontario]], McCurdy's great-great grandfather Nasa McCurdy was an agent on the [[Underground Railroad]] by which  [[Slavery in the United States|African-American slaves]] escaped to [[Canada]] in the 19th century.<ref name=obit/><ref name="oo">
{{cite news
 | last1        = Pearson
 | first1       = Craig
 | title        = McCurdy named to Order of Ontario
 | work         = Windsor Star
 | date         = 20 January 2012
 | url          = https://windsorstar.com/news/mccurdy-named-to-order-of-ontario
 | access-date  = 21 March 2024
 | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20180221181651/https://windsorstar.com/news/mccurdy-named-to-order-of-ontario
 | archive-date = 21 February 2018
 | url-status   = live
}}</ref>

He moved to [[Amherstburg, Ontario]], when he was 9 and encountered [[racism]] for the first time when he tried to join the [[Cub Scouts (Scouts Canada)|Cub Scouts]] and was excluded, being told to form a Black-only troop.<ref name=oo/> He later traced his activism back to his experiences with discrimination at this young age.<ref name="windsorpubliclibrary.com">
{{cite web
 | author        = Windsor Public Library
 | title         = Howard Douglas McCurdy
 | url           = https://www.windsorpubliclibrary.com/?page_id=15707
 | access-date   = 21 March 2024
 | archive-url   = https://web.archive.org/web/20160910225945/http://www.windsorpubliclibrary.com/?page_id=15707
 | archive-date  = 10 September 2016
 | url-status    = dead
}} </ref>