Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley Fox
(Terry Fox). Who was he? Terry Fox was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and a
cancer research activist. Terry Fox was born on July 28th, 1958 in
Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He was a long distance runner. He was a basketball
player for his Port Coquitlam high school, and Simon Fraser University. Terry
also played wheelchair basketball in Vancouver, he won three national
championships.
In 1980 he began
a cross country run to raise money for cancer research, known as the “Marathon
of Hope”. He hoped to raise one dollar
for each of Canada’s 24 million people. He
began his run in St. Johns Newfoundland. He ran the full equivalent of a
marathon a day. By the time he reached Ontario, Terry Fox had become a national
star. When the cancer spread to his lungs he was forced to stop the “Marathon
of Hope” in outside of Thunder Bay. He won the Lou Marsh Award, was named
Canada’s Newsmaker of the Year in both 1980 and 1981, and he was the youngest
person ever named a Champion of the Order of Canada.
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