Bill Vigars accompanied Terry Fox on the Marathon of Hope for three months and has released a new book about his experiences. He'll be at Mile 0 on Sunday for Victoria's Terry Fox Run.
Bill Vigars was taking Terry Fox out for a car ride between cancer treatments at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster when Fox turned to Vigars and asked: “Would you like to see where I will be buried?”
Vigars, who will be on hand at Mile 0 on Sunday for this year’s Terry Fox Run, has visited Fox’s grave a number of times since the runner’s death. He said the concrete slab that marks Fox’s final resting place — in Port Coquitlam, not far from where he lived — is always covered with toys. He remembers one time when a man came up to Fox to commend him for running on behalf of his son, who also had cancer.When Fox was undergoing chemotherapy, he was struck by the young children who were undergoing the same treatments.
In most of the pictures of Fox, he is seen running alone. But in the early part of the Marathon of Hope, children would sometimes run with him. Unfortunately, that practice stopped after Fox tripped when a child ran too close to him. He had only raised $1.7 million by the time he stopped — short of his $24-million goal, or a dollar from every Canadian at the time.
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