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Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope, 1980

A commemorative plaque at the Terry Fox monument on Wellington Street, Ottawa, photographed in 2016.
A commemorative plaque at the Terry Fox monument on Wellington Street, Ottawa, photographed in 2016. Terry Fox - Ottawa - 04 · Jeangagnon · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, by dipping his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 April 1980. After 143 days and 5,373 kilometres, he was forced to stop outside Thunder Bay, Ontario, on 1 September 1980 because cancer had appeared in his lungs.

Scope & context

The 1980 run, not the annual Terry Fox Run or later fundraising totals.

Sources behind this record

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The Terry Fox Foundation

Terry's Marathon of Hope