Ajou Ajou grew up in Brooks, Alberta, a small community that is known for its farming, energy sector, and meatpacking and processing plants. It sits not quite halfway between Calgary and Medicine Hat and has a population roughly the same size as a place in South Carolina named Clemson.
Ajou’s family hails from Sudan and he was born in Calgary. Immigrants into that part of Canada find jobs working in the meatpacking plants. His parents work for JBS Canada, a beef supplier with 2600 employees spread across Canada, and he grew up understanding the meaning of hard work.