Editing Terry Fox (section)

===Honours===
{{Main|List of monuments and memorials to Terry Fox}}

The physical memorials in Canada named after Fox include:<ref>{{cite news |title=How Terry Fox changed Canada |first=Leslie |last=Scrivener |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=April 11, 2010 |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/793452--how-terry-fox-changed-canada |accessdate=April 20, 2010 |archive-date=April 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415031816/http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/793452--how-terry-fox-changed-canada |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Approximately 32 roads and streets, notably [[Terry Fox Drive]], Ottawa, and the [[Thunder Bay Expressway|Terry Fox Courage Highway]] near Thunder Bay, near where Fox ended his run and where a statue of him was erected as a monument<ref name="FoxHansen">{{cite news |last=Wilkes |first=Jim |title=Hansen stops to honor Terry's dream of hope |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=January 5, 1987 |page=A2}}</ref> the [[Terry Fox Memorial and Lookout]];
* 14 schools, including a new school in a suburb of Montreal that was renamed Terry Fox Elementary School shortly after he died,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Qo0kAAAAIBAJ&pg=1180,1867787 |title=Terry Fox 'better name' for school than Fathers |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |date=November 6, 1981 |accessdate=March 3, 2010 |page=3}}</ref> and the Port Coquitlam high school from which he had graduated, which was renamed [[Terry Fox Secondary School]] on January 18, 1986;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://public.sd43.bc.ca/secondary/terryfox/about_us/General%20Info%20Documents/The%20Terry%20Fox%20Story.pdf |title=The Terry Fox story |publisher=Terry Fox Secondary School |accessdate=March 3, 2010 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5o4OymYFe?url=http://public.sd43.bc.ca/secondary/terryfox/about_us/General%20Info%20Documents/The%20Terry%20Fox%20Story.pdf |archivedate=March 8, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 14 other buildings, including many athletic centres, and 
** [[Terry Fox Stadium]], Ottawa, Ontario
** [[Terry Fox Station]], a transitway stop in Ottawa
** [[Terry Fox Theatre]], Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
** the Terry Fox Research Institute and the [[Terry Fox Laboratory]], the major research unit of the [[British Columbia Cancer Agency]];
* Seven statues, including:
** the Terry Fox Monument in Ottawa, which was the genesis of ''The Path of Heroes'', a federal government initiative that seeks to honour the people that shaped the nation;<ref name="TFFFacts">{{cite web |url=http://www.terryfox.org/Foundation/Facts.html |title=Facts |publisher=The Terry Fox Foundation |accessdate=March 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711125359/https://www.terryfox.org/Foundation/Facts.html |archivedate=July 11, 2010 }}</ref>
** In 2011, a series of four bronze sculptures of Fox, designed by [[Douglas Coupland]] and depicting Fox running toward the Pacific Ocean, was unveiled at Terry Fox Plaza outside [[BC Place]] in downtown Vancouver.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Terry Fox memorial unveiled in Vancouver|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-terry-fox-memorial-unveiled-in-vancouver-1.998187|publisher=CBC News|access-date=September 16, 2011|date=September 16, 2011}}</ref> 
* Nine fitness trails;
* A previously unnamed mountain in the [[Rocky Mountains|Canadian Rockies]] in the [[Selwyn Range (British Columbia)|Selwyn range]], which was named [[Mount Terry Fox]] by the government of British Columbia;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eaMyAAAAIBAJ&pg=4905,2432798 |title=Mountain in Rockies named for Terry Fox |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=July 7, 1981 |accessdate=March 5, 2010 |page=16}}</ref> the area around it is now known as [[Mount Terry Fox Provincial Park]];
* The Terry Fox Fountain of Hope was installed in 1982 on the grounds of [[Rideau Hall]];<ref>{{cite news|last=Howell|first=Elizabeth|title=Rideau Hall grounds to get $2.5M facelift|url=http://www.obj.ca/Real-Estate/Construction/2012-05-11/article-2976604/Rideau-Hall-grounds-to-get-$2.5M-facelift/1|accessdate=July 24, 2012|newspaper=[[Ottawa Business Journal]]|date=May 11, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920190141/http://www.obj.ca/Real-Estate/Construction/2012-05-11/article-2976604/Rideau-Hall-grounds-to-get-%242.5M-facelift/1|archivedate=September 20, 2012}}</ref>
* The [[Canadian Coast Guard]] [[icebreaker]] [[CCGS Terry Fox|CCGS ''Terry Fox'']], which was commissioned in 1983.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Fleet/Vessel?vessel_id=108 |title=CGCS Terry Fox |publisher=Fisheries and Oceans Canada |accessdate=September 6, 2015}}</ref>

Shortly after his death, Fox was named the Newsmaker of the Year for 1981,<ref>{{cite news |title=Poll again names Fox Canadian of the Year |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |date=December 18, 1981 |page=13}}</ref> and [[Canada Post]] announced the production of a commemorative stamp in 1981, bypassing its traditionally held position that stamps honouring people should not be created until ten years after their deaths.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Krebs |first1=Albin |last2=Thomas |first2=Robert |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/27/nyregion/notes-on-people-176204.html |title=Canada finds way to honor Terry Fox with a Stamp |newspaper=New York Times |date=June 27, 1981 |accessdate=March 2, 2010}}</ref> British rock star [[Rod Stewart]] was so moved by the Marathon of Hope that he was inspired to write and dedicate the song "Never Give Up on a Dream"&nbsp;– found on his 1981 album ''[[Tonight I'm Yours]]''&nbsp;– to Fox. Stewart also called his 1981–1982 tour of Canada the "Terry Fox Tour".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4FsxAAAAIBAJ&pg=5500,1321811 |title=Rod Stewart writes a song for Terry Fox |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |date=November 13, 1981 |accessdate=March 2, 2010 |page=48}}</ref> In 1982 the groundwork was laid for the Terry Fox Canadian Youth Centre, a residential hostel in Ottawa for high school students to come from across Canada to spend a week learning about the country. It was set up by the [[Canadian Unity Council]];<ref>{{cite web |title=The Canadian Unity Council presents plans for the Terry Fox Canadian Youth Centre |url=https://www.ewc-rdc.ca/pub/en/node/1349 |publisher=Encounters With Canada |date=December 5, 2018 |access-date=September 11, 2021 |archive-date=September 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911095049/https://www.ewc-rdc.ca/pub/en/node/1349 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the programme later became known as [[Encounters with Canada]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Encounters with Canada|encyclopedia= The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/encounters-with-canada |accessdate=September 11, 2021}}</ref> and the building was renamed the [[Historica Canada]] Centre.

In 2012, Fox was posthumously inducted into the [[Canadian Medical Hall of Fame]] in the Builder category in recognition of his public service in the name of research fundraising.<ref>{{cite web|title=Terry Fox|url=http://cdnmedhall.org/inductees/terry-fox|website=Canadian Medical Hall of Fame|accessdate=September 6, 2015|archive-date=September 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916024637/http://cdnmedhall.org/inductees/terry-fox|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Terry Fox Hall of Fame]] was established in 1994 to recognize individuals that have made contributions that improved the quality of life of disabled people.<ref name="TFFFacts"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canparaplegic.org/en/Advocacy_34/Disability_Organizations_1751/18.html |title=Terry Fox Hall of Fame |publisher=Canadian Paraplegic Association |accessdate=April 24, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725134619/http://www.canparaplegic.org/en/Advocacy_34/Disability_Organizations_1751/18.html |archivedate=July 25, 2011 }}</ref> The [[Terry Fox Laboratory]] research centre was established in Vancouver to conduct leading edge research into the causes and potential cures for cancer.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

In 2005, the [[Royal Canadian Mint]] issued a special dollar coin designed by [[Stanley Witten]] to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Stan Witten {{!}} The Terry Fox one-dollar Commemorative Circulation Coin. In Memory of a Canadian Hero|url=https://mint.ca/store/artist/stan-witten-25300031?cat=artists&nId=&parentnId=&nodeGroup=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616200827/https://mint.ca/store/artist/stan-witten-25300031?cat=artists&nId=&parentnId=&nodeGroup=|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2020|access-date=March 22, 2020|website=mint.ca}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=March 15, 2005|title=Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope Commemorated on New $1 Coin|page=6|work=The Ottawa Citizen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/455875188/|access-date=}}</ref> It was their first regular circulation coin to feature a Canadian.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/dollar-coin-honours-terry-fox-1.566558 |title=Dollar coin honours Terry Fox |publisher=CBC |date=March 14, 2005 |accessdate=September 6, 2015}}</ref>

In 2008, Fox was named a [[Persons of National Historic Significance|National Historic Person of Canada]], a recognition given by the [[Government of Canada|Canadian government]] to those persons who are considered to have played a nationally significant role in the history of the country. Fox's designation was due to his status as an "enduring icon", his personal qualities, and for the manner in which the Marathon of Hope had captivated the country and resonated deeply with Canadians.<ref>{{DFHD|12011|Fox, Terry National Historic Person|July 24, 2012}}</ref>

Fox's mother, [[Betty Fox]], was one of eight people to carry the [[Olympic Flag]] into [[BC Place Stadium]] at the [[2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony|opening ceremonies]] of the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] in Vancouver.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bartel |first=Kate |url=http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_maple_ridge/tricitynews/news/84509327.html |title=Fox: 'I was there in place of Terry' |newspaper=Tri-City News |date=February 16, 2010 |accessdate=March 5, 2010|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100430023227/http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_maple_ridge/tricitynews/news/84509327.html |archivedate = April 30, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The games saw the [[Terry Fox Award]] bestowed on Olympic athletes who embodied Fox's characteristics of determination and humility in the face of adversity.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/terry-fox-award-to-recognize-courageous-olympic-athlete-1.845545 |title=Terry Fox Award to recognize courageous Olympic athlete |publisher=CBC |date=December 11, 2009 |accessdate=September 6, 2015}}</ref>

Beginning in 2015, Manitoba designated the first Monday in August, formerly known as [[Civic Holiday]], as Terry Fox Day.<ref>{{cite news|title=Manitoba Terry Fox Day honours memory of famed Winnipeg runner|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-terry-fox-day-honours-memory-of-famed-winnipeg-runner-1.3178271|publisher=CBC |date=August 3, 2015 |accessdate=January 27, 2016}}</ref>

On September 13, 2020, [[Google]] celebrated Fox with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrating Terry Fox |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-terry-fox/ |date=September 13, 2020 }}</ref>

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File:Terry Fox.jpg|[[Terry Fox Memorial and Lookout|Memorial]] erected outside [[Thunder Bay]] on the Trans-Canada Highway near the spot where Fox was forced to end his marathon.|alt=Statue of a runner with an artificial leg looking skyward.
File:NGCC TERRY FOX 2009.jpg|[[CCGS Terry Fox|CCGS ''Terry Fox'']], in winter 2009 on the [[Saguenay River]]
File:Olympic flag carried into BC Place at 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony (cropped).jpg|[[Betty Fox]] (far left, front) carries the [[Olympic flag]] into the [[2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony]] in [[Vancouver]].
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