Terry Fox
Terry Fox (full name is Terrance Stanley Fox) was born in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada and raised in Vancouver. He got bone cancer when he was 18. While he was in hospital, he couldn’t bear to see the other children in suffering of cancers. So he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.
After he ran 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to prepare, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980, His original plan was across Canada, traveled all ten provinces, finally arrived in British Columbia. But while he was near the Thunder Bay, his cancer cells appeared in his lungs, and he forced to stop running. And Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at age 22.
He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope.
To date, more than $400 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry's name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world. Terry Fox changed the world and changed all the Cancer patients. In a public opinion poll, Terry Fox was voted the most famous Canadian of the 20th century. He was voted number two on The Greatest Canadian list.
My sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox
http://www.terryfoxrun.org/english/about%20terry%20fox/default.asp?s=1
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