Rick Hansen
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Richard Marvin Hansen is a Canadian track and field athlete, activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities. When Rick was 15, he was riding in the back of a pickup truck after a fishing tr
Hansen in 2014
Upright Hansen's statue, in honour of his Man in Motion World Tour, at the 700 block of West 10th Avenue, on the east side of the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre in front of the Heather Annex Pavilion.
In UBC Biomechanics Lab, preparing for tour
Hansen carries the Olympic flame into BC Place Stadium during the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Terry Fox
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Terrance Stanley Fox was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, having had one leg amputated due to cancer, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and aware
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…especially with his brother, father and grandfather, with whom he enjoyed frequent fishing trips. In 1980, fellow British Columbian and Canadian athlete Terry Fox, who had lost a leg to bone cancer, undertook the Marathon of Hope, intending to run across Canada from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island to raise…
Terry Fox in Toronto during his Marathon of Hope cross-country run (July 1980)
Fox's favourite prosthetic leg used during his Marathon of Hope, on display at the Canadian Museum of History
Fox on the SFU track, 1979
The van used in the Marathon of Hope on display at the Royal British Columbia Museum