Category:Terry Fox
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist  | |||||
| Upload media | |||||
| Spoken text audio | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name in native language |
| ||||
| Date of birth | 28 July 1958 Winnipeg Terrance Stanley Fox | ||||
| Date of death | 28 June 1981 New Westminster | ||||
| Manner of death |
| ||||
| Cause of death | |||||
| Place of burial | |||||
| Country of citizenship | |||||
| Educated at | |||||
| Occupation | |||||
| Mother | |||||
| Award received |
| ||||
| official website | |||||
| |||||
 | |||||
English: Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox, CC (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981), was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. He became famous for the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, which Fox ran with one prosthetic leg.
Media in category "Terry Fox"
The following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total.
-
Boxwood PS Library front desk.jpg 1,200 × 900; 1.12 MB
-
Marathon of Hope Map.png 2,500 × 1,500; 282 KB
-
Terry Fox van @ the Royal BC Museum.jpg 5,184 × 3,456; 5.36 MB
-
Terry Fox van Ottawa.jpg 1,024 × 768; 552 KB
-
Terry Fox; portrait painting.jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 3.67 MB
-
Terry-Fox-prosthetic-leg.jpg 2,304 × 3,072; 2.69 MB
-
TerryFoxToronto19800712.JPG 349 × 657; 161 KB
Categories:
- Fox (surname)
- Terrence (given name)
- Stanley (given name)
- Terry (given name)
- 1958 births
- 1981 deaths
- Companions of the Order of Canada
- Members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
- Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
- Winners of the Lou Marsh Trophy
- Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
- Inductees of Canada's Walk of Fame
- BC Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Births in Manitoba
- Canada in the 1980s
- Humanitarians from Canada
- Male marathon runners from Canada
- Amputees from Canada
- Alumni of Simon Fraser University
- Deaths in British Columbia
- Deaths from cancer in Canada