Terry Fox

Terry Fox was born on July 28 1958. in 1980 he had got cancer in his right leg causing it to be amputated. This was enough to get Terry to run all across Canada to raise awareness of cancer and to earn money for cancer research.  This run eventually caused Terry to get lung cancer and die on June 28 1981.   The length he had run every day was the same as a normal marathon. Terry Fox may have never made it across all of Canada but he had gotten people inspired and reached his goal of earning twenty four million dollars for cancer research.  Before and after these events Terry was a basketball player and won three national championships.