{"id":63913,"date":"2025-09-14T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63913\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:42:12","slug":"terry-foxs-hometown-unveils-sculptures-on-45th-anniversary-of-marathon-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63913\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Fox\u2019s hometown unveils sculptures on 45th anniversary of Marathon of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Fox\u2019s hometown has unveiled two sculptures as part of a public art installation to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Canadian icon\u2019s Marathon of Hope.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The installation, dubbed Gateway of Giants, was unveiled in a ceremony Saturday in Port Coquitlam, B.C., and is a collaboration between the city and the Fox family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always so amazing to have the community come together and it really feels like they wrap their arms around Terry at this moment,\u201d his niece, Kirsten Fox, said at Saturday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork, created by Spanish artist Casto Solano, is in an open plaza on Wilson Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The city says it offers an inviting space for visitors to \u201cremember where Terry began his journey.\u201d The sculptures were also designed to be approachable, and people are welcomed to walk up to them, touch them and take photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just wanted to do something that was a bit unique that reflected both Terry\u2019s time growing up here in PoCo, when he was just an average kid,\u201d said Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can just think of parents being able to bring their little kids and look up at these statues and have that spark conversations of who Terry was and what he did and why he did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: '45th anniversary of the Terry Fox Run'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025_09_13_TERRY_FOX.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t4:39<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t45th anniversary of the Terry Fox Run\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Fox embarked on his Marathon of Hope in 1980 to raise money for cancer research after having had one of his legs amputated during his own treatment for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11417373\/ipsos-poll-with-mps-returning-carney-government-has-decade-high-approval\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/15fc43cce3b0693f0a4c973ea3f3293deeae2bc45c5230e415398223d250cd3f.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tIpsos poll: With MPs returning, Carney government has decade-high approval\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11416312\/tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tyler-robinson-mugshot.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTyler Robinson: What we know about the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His cross-country tour began in St. John\u2019s, where he dipped his foot into the Atlantic Ocean on April 12. He was forced to end his journey in Ontario on Sept. 1 when the cancer returned.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Since then, his Marathon of Hope has continued, with events in communities and schools across the country. It has raised more than $850 million.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend marks the marathon\u2019s 45th anniversary, which is a moment of pride for Fox\u2019s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt says that people believe in Terry. They still connect with his values that he taught us: determination, perseverance, empathy,\u201d said Kirsten Fox.<\/p>\n<p>The sculptures are on a walkway that lead to the Port Coquitlam Community Centre, which houses an exhibit honouring Fox. Artifacts on display include Fox\u2019s spare prosthetic leg and a Marathon of Hope T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Fox\u2019s best friend, who drove the original Marathon of Hope van, says the sculptures will now also be a lasting symbol of Fox\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerry realized what the most important thing in life was: giving back,\u201d said Alward.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from Safeeya Pirani\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terry Fox\u2019s hometown has unveiled two sculptures as part of a public art installation to commemorate the 45th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,995,366,18,117,19,17,45256,35382,45257],"class_list":{"0":"post-63913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-marathon-of-hope","19":"tag-terry-fox","20":"tag-terry-fox-marathon-of-hope"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}