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In 1980, Terry Fox set out to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research — despite having lost one leg to the disease. His goal was to raise $1 from every Canadian to help find a cure, and some combination of passion, idealism, and sheer guts led to the impossible notion that he... read more

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Over the past year I've been in and out of Vancouver-area storage lockers, looking through more than a hundred thousand archived items from the Marathon of Hope.

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