Rick Hansen is a wheelchair athlete from Port Alberni and he raised 26 million dollars for spinal cord research and he called his charity Man in Motion. He did a tour around the world from 1985 to 1987.
Terry Fox (1958-1981)
Terry Fox was a cancer amputee. His leg was amputated. He cam e from Port Coquitlam. He raised million of dollars for cancer research by trying to run across Canada with only one leg! he died during his journey through Canada. It was the Marathon of Hope in 1980.
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