Terry fox biography cbc the national

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    Terry’s Legacy

     

    On April 12th 1980, Terry dipped his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean and began his Marathon of Hope across Canada. Averaging approximately 26 miles per day, Terry continued the Run for 143 days as the country watched with bated breath. On September 1st 1980, Terry was just outside Thunder Bay, Ontario, when he felt sharp pains in his chest. The cancer he thought that he had conquered had instead spread to his lungs. He returned to Vancouver for more treatments, but lost his battle with cancer on June 28th 1981, exactly one month shy of his 23rd birthday.

    Although Terry did not complete his Marathon, his Run had raised $24.2 million for cancer research while also becoming an inspiration to millions of people worldwide. Terry Fox has received numerous honours – including the Order of Canada,a postage stamp, several memorials, schools,a mountainand an HBO movie – but his greatest legacy is the annualTerry Fox Runwhich is held in cities across Can

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    FOX, TERRANCE STANLEY (known as Terry Fox), marathon runner and cancer-research fund-raiser; b. 28 July 1958 in Winnipeg, son of Rolland (Rolly) Murray Fox and Betty Lou Wark; d. 28 June 1981 in New Westminster, B.C.

    Terry Fox was the second child of Rolly Fox, a switchman for Canadian National Railways, and his wife, Betty, a part-time worker in a card shop. He grew up with an older brother, Fred, and a younger brother and sister, Darrell and Judith. In the mid 1960s his family moved from Winnipeg to Vancouver, and then to Port Coquitlam, where he would spend the rest of his life. He had a normal childhood as a member of a middle-class, nuclear family, going to school and participating in sports. He was an avid competitor in any idrott, but particularly in basketball. According to one of his high-school coaches, Bob McGill, he was not very skilled, at least initially. He was also short for a basketball player; at the beginning of Grade 8 he was onl

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    Terry Fox

    Canadian athlete (1958–1981)

    This article is about the Canadian athlete. For other uses, see Terry Fox (disambiguation).

    Terrance Stanley FoxCC OD (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, having had one leg amputated due to cancer, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. The annual Terry Fox Run, first held in 1981, has grown to involve millions of participants in over 60 countries and is now the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research; over C$850 million has been raised in his name as of September 2022.[1]

    Fox was a distance runner and basketball player for his high school, now named after him, and Simon Fraser University. His right leg was amputated in 1977 after he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, though he continued to run using an artificial leg. He also played wheelchair basketball in Vancouver, winning th