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Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox was born on July 28, 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The son of Betty Fox and Rolly Fox, Terry had three siblings: Older brother Fred Fox, younger sister Judy Alder-Fox, and younger brother Darrell Fox. His father Rolly was a switchman for the Canadian National Railway. The Fox family moved to Surrey, British Columbia in 1966 prior to settling in Port Coquitlam in 1968. A driven and determined athlete from a young age, Terry played baseball, rugby, and soccer while growing up. He later took up long distance running while in high school. Fox was chosen as a member of the starting team of his high school basketball team in 10th grade and was co-winner of his school's Athlete of the Year Award in 12th grade. Following graduation from high school, Terry attended Simon Fraser University, where he studied kinesiology so he could become a physical education teacher and was chosen for the school's junior varsity basketball team.

Fox was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1977 and had to have his right leg amputated fifteen centimeters above the knee. Terry was walking again with the assistance of an artificial prosthetic leg several weeks after the amputation surgery. Fox joined Canadian philanthropist Rick Hansen's wheelchair basketball team in the summer of 1977; he won three national titles as part of the team and was named an all-star by the North American Wheelchair Association in 1980.

However, Terry aspired to do something more in the name of cancer research and cancer awareness. Touched by the pain and suffering he had witnessed from numerous fellow cancer patients during his months of chemotherapy in the wake of the amputation of his right leg and furthered inspired by an article on Dick Traum, who was the first amputee to ever successfully finish the New York City Marathon, Fox decided to run across Canada in order to raise both money and awareness for cancer research. Terry started marathon running training with a special prosthetic leg made specifically for running and competed in a marathon in Prince George, British Columbia in August, 1979.

Fox started his Marathon of Hope on April 12, 1980 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Despite initial tepid coverage by the media, frequent extreme pain, and harsh weather such as heavy rain, gale force winds, and even a snowstorm during the first few days of his run, Terry continued to plug away and soon became a media sensation and national hero as he made his way throughout the provinces of Canada. Fox was greeted by all 10,000 residents of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland with a donation of 10,000 dollars. By the time Terry arrived in Ontario on June 22 his cause had raised over 200,000 dollars in donations. Fox met Governor General Ed Schreyer and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau upon his arrival in Ottawa. Moreover, Terry performed a ceremonial kickoff in front of sixteen thousand fans at a Canadian Football League game. Fox arrived in Toronto on July 11, where National Hockey League star Darryl Sittler gave Fox his 1980 All-Star Game jersey. In addition, Canadian Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr gave Terry a check for twenty-five thousand dollars.

Fox was forced to stop his marathon on September 1, 1980 because of severe exhaustion and serious chest pains due to the fact that his cancer had spread to his lungs. By the time Terry finished his marathon he had run 3,339 miles over the course of 143 days in which he ran the equivalent of a full marathon on each day and had raised 1,700,000 dollars for cancer research. Fox died at age 22 on June 28, 1981. The first annual Terry Fox Run was held in September of that same year. Moreover, The Terry Fox Foundation has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the name of cancer research and The Terry Fox Research Institute was founded in 2007. In addition, many schools, roads, parks, and buildings throughout Canada have been named in Fox's honor.

I&#39;m not doing the run to become rich or famous.

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

Even if I don&#39;t finish, we need others to continue. It&#39;s got to keep going without me.

Maybe that&#39;s why I&#39;ve made it as far as I have -- 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion I&#39;d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else I&#39;d never have started. I&#39;ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain I&#39;m going through is nothing. They can&#39;t shut if off, and I can&#39;t shut down every time I feel a little sore.

Some people can&#39;t figure out what I&#39;m doing. It&#39;s not a walk-hop, it&#39;s not a trot, it&#39;s running, or as close as I can get to running, and it&#39;s harder than doing it on two legs. It makes me mad when people call this a walk. If I was walking than it wouldn&#39;t be anything.

When I started this run, I said if we all gave one dollar, we&#39;d have $22 million for cancer research, and I don&#39;t care man, there&#39;s no reason that isn&#39;t possible. No reason!

It&#39;s one thing to run across Canada, but now people are really going to know what cancer is.

[to an applauding crowd in Toronto] Those claps, take them for yourself. If you&#39;ve given a dollar, you&#39;re part of the Marathon of Hope. That ovation was for you, wherever you are in Canada.

I&#39;m not a dreamer, and I&#39;m not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to. Because somewhere the hurting must stop.

How many people do something they really believe in? I just wish people would realize that anything&#39;s possible if you try. Dreams are made if people try.

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Terry Fox

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