As tough as Terry was, a guy named Steve Fonyo actually completed the whole cross Canada thing on one leg a few years later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fonyo
However, Fonyo didn't have the boyish good looks or charisma that Fox did. In fact, he came across as an arrogant prick in the media. And, Fox was the guy who came up with the whole idea in the first place.
Thus, we have streets and schools named after Terry Fox; no one even remembers Steve Fonyo.
Wait, stop the thread. We are taking credit away from the almighty Dean.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Kingston,+ON&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=44.262551,-76.521664&spn=0.008252,0.021136&om=1Back in the Day, eh wrote:
Thus, we have streets and schools named after Terry Fox; no one even remembers Steve Fonyo.
Steve Fonyo Drive is a small side street off relatively small Terry Fox Drive.
Wasn't a movie made about this great story? And who played Terry Fox? If anybody knows.
He was played by Eric Fryer, who only had one leg in real-life, just like Fox. And he looked like him in the face, too. How they found such a perfect match I'll never know.
dean k makes me sick, karnazes is such a pussy.
Terry didn't have to worry about maintaining killer abs and rotating his skin care products. What a puss.
I came across the Terry Fox Memorial near Thunder Bay on a trip across Canada a few years ago and must admit to being a bit teary-eyed thinking about the pain he endured and how ultimately he was forced to stop. The way he coalesced an entire country to support his endeavor was amazing. If a USA guy tried the same thing, he'd be bashed to bits. Sad, but true.
Terry Fox was the tuffest, most courageous SOB out there and is Canada's true hero. I would have a difficult time finding another person who displayed the character, endurance, and hope that Terry did. It is interesting to note that the Terry Fox run is now in 51 countries and has raised over $360 million to date. Now THAT is a legacy. The media may be caught up in him now, but who will remember DK in 25 years?
Alvy wrote:
The media may be caught up in him now, but who will remember DK in 25 years?
too true - who put the media in mediocrity?
It was so much fun watching Terry Fox run on TV.
I remember doing a Terry Fox run in 7th grade at a school in Canada.
Creajlpelo wrote:
It was so much fun watching Terry Fox run on TV.
I remember doing a Terry Fox run in 7th grade at a school in Canada.
Terry was heroic.
But what about Darrell his brother and his support
And Doug? Nobody mentions Doug.
Doug was unbelievable.
Back in the Day, eh wrote:
As tough as Terry was, a guy named Steve Fonyo actually completed the whole cross Canada thing on one leg a few years later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fonyo
However, Fonyo didn't have the boyish good looks or charisma that Fox did. In fact, he came across as an arrogant prick in the media. And, Fox was the guy who came up with the whole idea in the first place.
Thus, we have streets and schools named after Terry Fox; no one even remembers Steve Fonyo.
Terry stopped when his cancer returned in his lung.
It had nothing to do with Fonyo's looks. He did a great thing raising money for cancer but he had most of his accolades revoked due to his extensive criminal record.
I think overall he will be viewed as a good person but we are all responsible for our actions.
Pete wrote:
ape wrote:did anyone catch the segment about him when the cbc had the greatest canadian poll?
Here's the top ten list that came out of that fairly extensive semi-sorta-scientific popularity contest/poll:
1 Tommy Douglas - former western premier, father of Canadian health care system
2 Terry Fox - the MAN
3 Pierre Elliott Trudeau - former Prime Minister, repatriated the constitution from Britian, divided the country over Quebec and oil, captured either the imagination or the ire (everyone had a strong opinion) of all Canadians
4 Sir Frederick Banting - disvovered insulin
5 David Suzuki - environmentalist
6 Lester B. Pearson - former PM, inventor of the Peacekeeping concept
7 Don Cherry - hockey commentator, former coach, expresses the voice of the common Canadian very bluntly in hockey matters
8 Sir John A. Macdonald - first PM, largely responsible for the creating of Canada in 1867
9 Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the telephone
10 Wayne Gretzky - the Great One
The Americans reading this will have no idea who a lot of these people are, so I added some commentary beside the names. You can get a real good idea about Canada's national character by looking at that list. It seems we value things like health care, the environment, our country, and hockey. Some people might put hockey higher in the list :-)
Try harder with your list. Terry Fox… okay, but some of the others are an embarrassment.
3. Trudeau - let his wife get nailed by Castro leading to his illegitimate son Justin, who is rapidly making Canada an authoritarian hellhole. Pierre also made all federal government departments bilingual which costs a fortune in translation and has resulted in about 90% of federal government employees being francophones.
5. David Suzuki is a quack who has never done anything of scientific importance. He’s a TV personality.
6. Would be more impressive if Canada hadn’t spent the past 8 years training Nazis in the Ukraine.
8. Sir John A was a raging alcoholic who just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Very far from “a great man”.
How about Gerald Bull, MafiaBoy, Lewis Urry, James Gosling, Henry Woodward & Mathew Evans, and James Naismith?