By Moira Walko-Eggett, Wallaceburg Terry Fox Run organizer

“Terry Fox gave Canada a dream as big as our country,” late Canadian journalist Christie Blatchford wrote in 2014.

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He dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 12, 1980, and proceeded to unite Canadians in a way never, nor since, seen.

The only thing that could have stopped Terry from reaching the Pacific Ocean did. Cancer returned in his lungs, and he was forced to stop on Sept. 1, 1980, after having run 5,373 kilometres.

The annual Terry Fox Run has become a classic Canadian tradition. With nearly 600 communities, big and small, urban and rural, English and French, fundraising for cancer research. This year, the 45 year, participate, fundraise and on Sunday, Sept. 14, let’s do what Terry so

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