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Several participants came together to honour Terry Fox's legacy Sunday in South Surrey, in the annual Terry Fox Run fundraising event.

Inspired by the young Canadian who, when diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma just above the knee at 18, didn't let the subsequent amputation of his leg defeat him — in spawned in him a fierce determination to end the suffering caused by cancer.

Fox ran a marathon a day with one leg, dipping his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 12, 1980, to raise funds for cancer research, uniting Canadians across the country, from the Maritimes to his home province of British Columbia.

"What he did ... he ran on an artificial leg that was never meant for running on," noted one of the White Rock/South Surrey Terry Fox Run orga

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