V 1 N. 3 Remembering Terry Fox's Run Forty Five Years Ago

 



Some of you may remember the epic attempt by Terry Fox to run across Canada now forty-five years ago.  A challenge indeed even for a kid in his twenties, but Terry was carrying a bit more of a challenge as he had had a leg amputated due to cancer.   What started on a small basis on April 12, 1980, quickly grew to an incredible story that Canadians looked for every night for 145 days.  A Canadian hero was born well before that 145 days was over.  With that prosthesis he managed almost a marathon a day until the cancer recurred in his lungs, and he gave up the quest at Thunder Bay, Ontario.  Within  two years  Terry succumbed to the disease on June 28, 1981.   He was still only 22 years old.  He was a kiniseology student at Simon Fraser University near his hometown of Port Coquitlam, BC. 


The following piece appeared on the CBC website this week commemorating Terry Fox.

Terry Fox's Brother at this week's 45 anniversary   (2 min.)


I've since found a more detailed story done twenty years ago about the Marathon of Hope

Marathon of Hope 25th Anniversary  (8 min.)

If you can watch this one without a tear in your eye, I'll buy you a beer.

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