Editing Terry Fox (section)

==Legacy==
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Fox remains a prominent figure in Canadian folklore. His determination united the nation; people from all walks of life lent their support to his run and his memory inspires pride in all regions of the country.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Coupland |first=Douglas |title=Canada's true hero |journal=Maclean's Magazine |pages=58–63 |date=July 5, 2004 |issn=0024-9262}}</ref> A 1999 national survey named him as Canada's greatest hero,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfu.ca/terryfox/about.html |title=About Terry Fox |publisher=Simon Fraser University |accessdate=March 5, 2010}}</ref> and he finished second to [[Tommy Douglas]] in the 2004 [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] program ''[[The Greatest Canadian]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/ |title=The Greatest Canadian |publisher=CBC |accessdate=March 5, 2010| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080801091041/http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/| archivedate = August 1, 2008}}</ref> Fox's heroic status has been attributed to his image as an ordinary person attempting a remarkable and inspirational feat.<ref name="CFC-Aug1981">{{cite journal |last1=McCaffery |first1=Margaret |last2=Murray |first2=Terry |title=Terry Fox: Heroes Aren't Saints |journal=Canadian Family Physician |volume=27 |date=August 1981 |pages=1184–1186 |pmc=2306103 |pmid=21289776}}</ref><ref>Rak, 2008, p. 62.</ref> Others have argued that Fox's greatness derives from his audacious vision, his determined pursuit of his goal, his ability to overcome challenges such as his lack of experience and the very loneliness of his venture.<ref name="CFC-Aug1981" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Jubas|first1=Kaela|year=2006|title= Theorizing Gender in Contemporary Canadian Citizenship: Lessons Learned from the CBC's "Greatest Canadian" Contest|journal=Canadian Journal of Education|volume=29|issue=2|pages=563–583|url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ750401.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ750401.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|doi=10.2307/20054177|last2=Jubas|first2=K.|jstor=20054177|accessdate=September 6, 2015}}</ref> As Fox's advocate on ''The Greatest Canadian'', media personality [[Sook-Yin Lee]] compared him to a classic hero, [[Phidippides]], the runner who delivered the news of the [[Battle of Marathon]] before dying, and asserted that Fox "embodies the most cherished Canadian values: compassion, commitment, perseverance". She highlighted the juxtaposition between his celebrity, brought about by the unforgettable image he created, and his rejection of the trappings of that celebrity.<ref>Rak, 2008, pp. 62–63.</ref> Typically amongst Canadian icons, Fox is an unconventional hero, admired but not without flaws.<ref name="New">{{cite book| last = New | first = William H.| title = Borderlands: how we talk about Canada| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=v5nlp2Z2b7IC| date = June 1, 1998| publisher = UBC Press| location = Vancouver| isbn = 978-0-7748-0659-6| pages = 44–45 }}</ref> An obituary in the ''Canadian Family Physician'' emphasized his humanity and noted that his anger&nbsp;– at his diagnosis, at press misrepresentations and at those he saw as encroaching on his independence&nbsp;– spoke against ascribing sainthood for Fox, and thus placed his achievements within the reach of all.<ref name="CFC-Aug1981" />

===Views on Fox's disability===
[[File:Terry Fox Statue db.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Terry Fox statue in [[Ottawa]], Ontario|alt=Statue of a runner with an artificial leg partially hunched forward.]]

Fox refused to regard himself as disabled,<ref name="isbn0-7295-3673-4">{{cite book| last = McMurray | first = Anne| title = Community health and wellness: a socioecological approach| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-F6_n60TCFQC| date = June 15, 2003| publisher = Mosby| location = St. Louis| isbn = 978-0-7295-3673-8| page = 10 }}</ref> and would not allow anyone to pity him, telling a Toronto radio station that he found life more "rewarding and challenging" since he had lost his leg.<ref name="CFC-Aug1981" /> His feat helped redefine Canadian views of disability and the [[Inclusion (disability rights)|inclusion of disabled people]] in society.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.therecord.com/article/696082 |title=Terry Fox left a great legacy |newspaper=Kitchener Record |date=April 12, 2010 |accessdate=April 24, 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="wheeler">{{cite book| last1 = Wheeler | first1 = Garry David | last2 = Steadward | first2 = Robert Daniel | last3 = Watkinson | first3 = Elizabeth Jane | title = Adapted Physical Activity| url = https://archive.org/details/adaptedphysicala00stea| url-access = registration | year = 2003| publisher = University of Alberta Press| location = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada| isbn = 978-0-88864-375-9| pages = [https://archive.org/details/adaptedphysicala00stea/page/36 36]–37}}</ref> Fox's actions increased the visibility of people with disabilities,<ref name="wheeler"/><ref name="isbn978-0-7487-3294-4">{{cite book| last = Brown | first = Roy| title = Quality of Life for People With Disabilities: Models, Research and Practice| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1Mxe0YmyTeQC| year = 1997| publisher = Nelson Thornes| location = Cheltenham, U.K| isbn = 978-0-7487-3294-4| page = 255 }}</ref> and influenced the attitudes of those with disabilities by showing disability portrayed in a positive light.<ref name="wheeler"/> [[Rick Hansen]] commented that the run challenged society to focus on ability rather than disability, writing, "What was perceived as a limitation became a great opportunity. People with disabilities started looking at things differently. They came away with huge pride".<ref name="s227">Scrivener, 2000, p. 227.</ref>

The narrative surrounding Fox has been critiqued as illustrating the media's focus on stereotyped portrayals of the heroic and extraordinary achievements of people with disabilities, rather than more mundane accomplishments.<ref name="Nelson"/><ref name="isbn0-275-97943-1">{{cite book| last1 = Smith | first1 = Linda C. | last2 = King | first2 = Gillian A. | last3 = Brown | first3 =  Elizabeth Mills| title = Resilience: learning from people with disabilities and the turning points in their lives| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JNrqSQqvbB8C| date = October 2003| publisher = Praeger| location = New York| isbn = 978-0-275-97943-0| page = 81 }}</ref><ref name="Shapiro2011">{{cite book|last=Shapiro | first = Joseph P. |title=No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KLRpuFWiBB8C&pg=PA17|date=June 22, 2011|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-79832-9|pages=16–17}}</ref> Actor Alan Toy noted "Sure, it raised money for cancer research and sure it showed the human capacity for achievement. But a lot of disabled people are made to feel like failures if they haven't done something extraordinary. They may be bankers or factory workers&nbsp;– proof enough of their usefulness to society. Do we have to be 'supercrips' in order to be valid? And if we're not super, are we invalid?"<ref name="Nelson">{{cite book| last1 = Nelson | first1 = Jack A. |last2=Ross | first2 = Susan Dente | title = Images that injure: pictorial stereotypes in the media| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4m9iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22And+if+we%27re+not+super%2C+are+we+invalid%3F%22| year = 2003| publisher = Praeger| location = New York| isbn = 978-0-275-97846-4| chapter = The invisible cultural group: Images of disability }}</ref> The media's idealization of Fox has also been critiqued for emphasizing an individualistic approach to illness and disability, in which the body is a machine to be mastered, rather than the [[social model of disability]] where societal attitudes and barriers to inclusion play a prominent role in determining who is disabled.<ref name="isbn978-0-7619-4730-1">{{cite book| last = Seale | first = Clive| title = Media and health| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pWF_3ydQ4QUC| year = 2002| publisher = Sage| location = Thousand Oaks, Calif| isbn = 978-0-7619-4730-1| page = 112}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Harrison|first=Deborah|year=1985|title=The Terry Fox story and the popular media: a case study in ideology and illness|journal= Canadian Review of Sociology |volume=22|issue=4|pages=496–514|doi=10.1111/j.1755-618X.1985.tb00378.x}}</ref>

===Terry Fox Run===
{{Main|Terry Fox Run}}
[[File:Terry Fox Run (1506100972).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|A runner's tag for a Terry Fox Run in Milan, Italy in 2007]]

During Fox's marathon, Sharp proposed an annual fundraising run in Fox's name; Fox agreed, but insisted that the runs be non-competitive and include any who wanted to participate.<ref name="Scrivener187">Scrivener, 2000, p. 187.</ref> Sharp faced opposition to the project: the Cancer Society feared that a fall run would detract from its traditional April campaigns, while other charities believed that an additional fundraiser would leave less money for their causes.<ref name="Millionaire">{{cite news |last=Scrivener |first=Terry |title=A millionaire keeps Terry's memory alive |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=September 13, 1987 |page=D1}}</ref> Sharp persisted, and he, the Four Seasons Hotels and the Fox family organized the first Terry Fox Run on September 13, 1981.<ref name="Scrivener187" />

Over 300,000 people took part and raised $3.5&nbsp;million in the first Terry Fox Run.<ref name="Marathon">{{cite web |last=Scrivener |first=Leslie |url=http://www.terryfox.org/Foundation/The_Marathon_of_Hope.html |title=Marathon of Hope |publisher=The Terry Fox Foundation |accessdate=March 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420042012/http://www.terryfox.org/Foundation/The_Marathon_of_Hope.html |archivedate=April 20, 2010 }}</ref> Schools across Canada were urged to join the second run, held on September 19, 1982.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EQowAAAAIBAJ&pg=1975,3873773 |title=Join Fox run, schools urged |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |date=August 17, 1982 |accessdate=March 1, 2010 |page=A11}}</ref> School participation has continued since, evolving into the National School Run Day.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opsba.org/index.php?q=news/terry_fox_run_largest_event_in_canadian_history |title=Terry Fox Run – Largest event in Canadian history |publisher=Ontario Public School Boards Association |date=March 1, 2005 |accessdate=March 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629171408/http://www.opsba.org/index.php?q=news%2Fterry_fox_run_largest_event_in_canadian_history |archivedate=June 29, 2010 }}</ref> The runs, which raised over $20&nbsp;million in their first six years,<ref name="Millionaire" /> grew into an international event as over one million people in 60 countries took part in 1999, raising $15&nbsp;million that year alone.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/terry-fox-s-memory-goal-live-on-1.169557 |title=Terry Fox's memory, goal live on |publisher=CBC |date=September 19, 1999 |access-date=March 1, 2010}}</ref> By the Terry Fox Run's 25th anniversary, more than three million people were taking part annually. Grants from the Terry Fox Foundation, which organizes the runs, have helped Canadian scientists make numerous advances in cancer research.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadians-celebrate-the-life-of-terry-fox-1.540950 |title=Canadians celebrate the life of Terry Fox |publisher=CBC |date=September 17, 2005 |accessdate=September 6, 2015}}</ref> The Terry Fox Run is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research,<ref>{{cite news |last=El Shammaa |first=Dina |url=http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/terry-fox-never-gave-up-and-had-positive-attitude-1.584178 |title=Terry Fox 'never gave up and had positive attitude' |newspaper=Gulf News |date=February 17, 2010 |accessdate=March 7, 2010}}</ref> and over $850&nbsp;million has been raised in his name {{as of|2022|May|lc=y}}.<ref name="Terry's Story">{{cite web |url=http://www.terryfox.org/terrys-story/ |title=Terry's Story |publisher=The Terry Fox Foundation |accessdate=January 29, 2018}}</ref>

===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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===Film and stage===
Fox's story was dramatized in the 1983 biographical film ''[[The Terry Fox Story]]''. Produced by [[HBO|Home Box Office]], the film aired as a [[television movie]] in the United States and had a theatrical run in Canada.<ref name="1983FilmReviews">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6kMwAAAAIBAJ&pg=4415,1524323 |title=More raves than boos for 'Terry Fox Story' |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |date=May 24, 1983 |accessdate=March 6, 2010 |page=D10}}</ref> The film starred amputee actor [[Eric Fryer (actor)|Eric Fryer]] and [[Robert Duvall]], and was the first film made exclusively for pay television.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A68yAAAAIBAJ&pg=4635,4356556 |title=People will remember this... |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=September 20, 1982 |accessdate=March 6, 2010 |page=37}}</ref> The movie received mixed but generally positive reviews,<ref name="1983FilmReviews" /> but was criticized by Fox's family over how it portrayed his temper.<ref name="MacleansFilm">{{cite news |last=McKay |first=John |url=http://www.macleans.ca/culture/entertainment/article.jsp?content=20050912_112057_112059 |title=Terry Fox: A hero's story |newspaper=Maclean's Magazine |date=September 9, 2005 |accessdate=March 6, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019200610/http://www.macleans.ca/culture/entertainment/article.jsp?content=20050912_112057_112059 |archivedate=October 19, 2009 }}</ref> ''The Terry Fox Story'' was nominated for eight [[Genie Awards]], and won five, including [[Genie Award for Best Motion Picture|Best Picture]] and [[Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Lawson |first=Michael |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l74yAAAAIBAJ&pg=1697,1159491 |title=Terry Fox Story awarded best picture, actor Genies |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=March 22, 1984 |accessdate=March 6, 2010 |page=93}}</ref>

Rock musician [[Ian Thomas (Canadian musician)|Ian Thomas]] had written and recorded a song in response to Fox's story, "[[Runner (song)|Runner]]", which ended up being included in the film. It also was covered by [[Manfred Mann's Earth Band]], reaching #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #34 in [[RPM (magazine)|Canada]] in 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.6304.pdf| title=RPM Top 50 Singles - March 31, 1984}}</ref>

A second movie, titled ''[[Terry (film)|Terry]]'', focused on the Marathon of Hope, was produced by the [[CTV Television Network]] in 2005. Fox was portrayed by [[Shawn Ashmore]]. He is not an amputee; digital editing was used to superimpose a prosthesis over his real leg. The film was endorsed by Fox's family, and portrayed his attitude more positively than the first movie.<ref name="MacleansFilm" /> Canadian [[National Basketball Association]] star [[Steve Nash]], who himself was inspired by Fox when he was a child, directed a 2010 documentary ''Into the Wind'', which aired on [[ESPN]] as part of its ''[[30 for 30]]'' series.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=006545a4-a2d6-4867-9adf-d60125176f14 |title=Nash to make film about Terry Fox |work=Vancouver Sun |date=July 12, 2008 |accessdate=March 6, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109051824/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=006545a4-a2d6-4867-9adf-d60125176f14 |archivedate=November 9, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/watch/film/842568ae-13c4-447e-a846-9802d398829e/into-the-wind |title=Into the Wind |publisher=ESPN |access-date=September 6, 2015}}</ref>

Fox's story was brought to the stage in 2016 in ''Marathon of Hope: The Musical'' produced by [[Drayton Entertainment]].

===Steve Fonyo and Rick Hansen===
Fox was not the first person to attempt to run across Canada. Mark Kent crossed the country in 1974 as he raised money for the Canadian team at the [[1976 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="MtlGazette42880"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EYY0AAAAIBAJ&pg=4860,3621025|title=Run across Canada with Mark|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=September 27, 1974|accessdate=March 3, 2010|page=4}}</ref> While he lived, Fox refused to let anyone else complete the Marathon of Hope, having promised to finish it himself once he recovered.<ref name="Scrivener187"/> [[Steve Fonyo]], an 18-year-old with the same form of cancer and who also had a leg amputated, sought in 1984 to duplicate Fox's run, calling his effort the "Journey for Lives".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-BciAAAAIBAJ&pg=997,1844598|title=Amputee will follow Terry Fox |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |date=March 17, 1984|accessdate=March 3, 2010 |page=C4}}</ref> After leaving St. John's on March 31, Fonyo reached the point where Fox was forced to end his marathon at the end of November,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GyAyAAAAIBAJ&pg=4381,7052496 |title=Fonyo passes spot where Terry Fox abandoned his run|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=November 30, 1984|accessdate=March 3, 2010|page=B1}}</ref> and completed the transcontinental run on May 29, 1985.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RBgiAAAAIBAJ&pg=4673%2C3845907|title=14-month Journey for Lives ends today|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=May 29, 1985|accessdate=March 3, 2010|page=B1}}</ref> The Journey for Lives raised over $13&nbsp;million for cancer research.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kidd|first=Kenneth|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/758227--steve-fonyo-out-of-order|title=Steve Fonyo: Out of Order|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=January 31, 2010|accessdate=March 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204133857/http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/758227--steve-fonyo-out-of-order|archive-date=February 4, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Canadian [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] athlete [[Rick Hansen]], who had recruited Fox to play on his wheelchair basketball team in 1977, was similarly inspired by the Marathon of Hope.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=14214 |title=Footprints: Rick Hansen |publisher=Historica-Dominion Institute of Canada |accessdate=March 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229221126/http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=14214 |archivedate=December 29, 2010 }}</ref> Hansen, who first considered circumnavigating the globe in his wheelchair in 1974, began the [[Man in Motion World Tour]] in 1985 with the goal of raising $10&nbsp;million towards research into [[spinal cord injuries]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Stallings|first=Dianne|title=Wheelchair marathoner rolls through on tour of the world|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|date=June 19, 1985|page=1}}</ref> As Fonyo had, Hansen paused at the spot Fox's run ended to honour the late runner.<ref name="FoxHansen"/> Hansen completed his world tour in May 1987 after 792 days and {{convert|40073|km|mi}};<ref>{{cite news|title=Hansen's heroic feat|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=May 22, 1987|page=A18}}</ref> he travelled through 34 countries and raised over $26&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kassam|first=Ashifa|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/06/09/rick_hansen_to_be_inducted_to_canadas_walk_of_fame.html|title=Rick Hansen to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=June 9, 2007|accessdate=March 3, 2010}}</ref>

===Government documents===
Fox is shown in the 2013 rendering of the [[Canadian passport]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCRmciqXgsw |title=Decision to remove Terry Fox from passport criticized |date=May 11, 2023 |publisher=CBC Vancouver |accessdate=September 4, 2024 |via=YouTube}}</ref> In December 2024, Fox was chosen to appear on a future issue of the Canadian [[2018 Canadian banknote series#$5 note|$5 bill]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fall-economic-statement-five-things-1.7411901|title=Terry Fox on the $5, big money for the border — what we learned from the economic statement|last=Zimonjic|first=Peter|publisher=[[CBC News]]|date=December 16, 2024|accessdate=December 17, 2024}}</ref>