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Darril Fosty

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Darril Fosty is a Canadian-born award-winning historian, documentary filmmaker, and media publisher currently living in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the co-founder of the website CardBiz.ca as well as the Vice-President of Stryker-Indigo New York www.strykerindigo.com , a New York-based multi-platform sports marketing and information corporation. In 1992, he received his Bachelor of Arts in History, with a minor in Journalism, from Western Washington University.

In 1994, Fosty wrote press releases for the Seattle Sounders FC sports information department. After leaving the Sounders, he worked in the technology industry doing Infrastructure and Tier 3 Support for Boeing and Microsoft before becoming the first employee and the Network/Infrastructure Manager of the Internet security start-up Zendit, now called Authora.

Darril Fosty is the co-author/author of five books: "Splendid Is The Sun: The 5,000 Year History of Hockey" (2003), "Black Ice: The Lost History Of The Colored Hockey League Of The Maritimes, 1895 – 1925" (2004), "Footie's Black Book: A Guide To International Association Football - 2010 World Cup Edition"(2010), the comedy book "The Apocalypse 2012 Cookbook: A New World Survivor's Guide For The Man, Woman and Family On The Run" (2011) and "Where Brave Men Fall: The Battle Of Dieppe And The Espionage War Against Hitler, 1939-1942 (2013).

He is the Vice President and Co-Founder of the Society of North American Hockey Historians and Researchers. www.sonahrsports.com as well as a Founder of the Black Ice Hockey And Sports Hall of Fame Conference. He also serves on the SONAHHR Executive Board as well as on the Advisory Board of the Black Ice Project for the purposes of identifying and preserving Black Hockey History.