{"id":103815,"date":"2022-07-01T01:07:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=103815"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T17:31:52","slug":"the-legacy-of-terry-fox-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-legacy-of-terry-fox-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The legacy of Terry Fox lives on, says family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the annual Terry Fox run approaching, his family reflected on his legacy and how it continues to inspire generations of Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Fox, a representative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/terryfox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terry Fox Foundation<\/a> spoke with CIVL about the impact his brother Terry has had on Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>\"We marked the 41st anniversary [of his death]...our family is proud to know that <a href=\"https:\/\/terryfox.org\/terrys-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terry Fox<\/a> has impacted so many lives over the years,\" Fred says.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete and humanitarian; he passed away in 1981 while he was completing a cross-country run to raise funds for cancer research. His family has continued his work through the Terry Fox Foundation since 1981, raising funds, organizing events and promoting cancer awareness.<\/p>\n<p>\"I get a chance to travel [with] my mom and dad, travel my brother Darryl, and my sister Judy...and have met so many people that have been inspired by Terry,\" Fred added, speaking about the foundation's work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the annual Terry Fox run approaching, his family reflected on his legacy and how it continues to inspire generations of Canadians. Fred Fox, a representative of the Terry Fox Foundation spoke with CIVL about the impact his brother Terry has had on Canadians. &#8220;We marked the 41st anniversary [of his death]&#8230;our family is proud&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":103817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,223],"tags":[1576,10348,9604,9605,16325],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157781,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103815\/revisions\/157781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103815"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=103815"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=103815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}