Yesterday was Terry Fox Day in Manitoba.
The Canadian Hero was born in Winnipeg in 1958.
To honour his Manitoban roots, the province renamed the August Civic Holiday in 2015.
In April of 1980, Fox started his "Marathon of Hope" in St. John's Newfoundland, in hopes of running across the country to raise money for cancer research. His trek, unfortunately, ended in Thunder Bay.
Since the time he started his Marathon of Hope, Terry Fox and the Terry Fox Foundation have raised over $750 million for cancer research.
