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The Terry Fox Run is an annual non-competitive charity event held around the world to raise money for cancer research in commemoration of Canadian cancer activist Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope. The event was founded in 1981 by Isadore Sharp , who had contacted Terry in hospital by telegram and expressed his wishes to hold an annual run in ...
Grants from the Terry Fox Foundation, which organizes the runs, have helped Canadian scientists make numerous advances in cancer research. [100] The Terry Fox Run is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research, [101] and over $850 million has been raised in his name as of May 2022. [102]
The monument was dedicated on June 26, 1982, just days before the first anniversary of Terry Fox's death, by Governor General Edward Schreyer. [4] Originally located directly along the route of Highway 17, [5] the statue was later relocated to a dedicated park overlooking the highway to accommodate the widening of the highway route. [6]
Inspired by his hero, Terry Fox, he completed a 7,342 km run across Canada in 99 days. [37] He set out on 1 April 2024 from St Johns, Newfoundland and arrived in Victoria, British Columbia on 7 July 2024, 99 days later. He ran the entire route at approximately 75 km/day, with each day broken into three 25 km segments.
An 83-kilometre (52 mi) segment of the Trans-Canada Highway between Thunder Bay and Nipigon is commemorated as the Terry Fox Courage Highway. [10] Fox was forced to abandon his cross-country Marathon of Hope run here, and a bronze statue of him was later erected in his honour. The highway is the only road that connects eastern and western Canada.
In doing so, he followed in the footsteps of Terry Fox. Fonyo began his run on March 31, 1984, and completed it 425 days later on May 29, 1985, covering 7,924 km (4,924 mi), and raising $14 million. Unlike Fox, who had to abandon the Marathon of Hope when his cancer returned, Fonyo completed the coast-to-coast run. He also completed a run ...
“Longer run they will either move job or move house—probably pretty equally split—but in the short-run they have no option if this is enforced but to increase the number of super commutes ...
Terry Fox: Operates during selected time periods only Monday–Friday. Serves the communities of Huntsville, Morgan's Grant, and Briarbrook. As part of the New Ways to Bus network change, this route will be rerouted to only run along Terry Fox, Huntsville, Katimavik and Kanata with more local service in Morgan's Grant and Kanata Lakes removed.