More than 100 years ago, George Hincks and Marshall McDougall met in a Calgary military hospital and hatched a truly spectacular plan.

It was 1923, and both men were struggling to reintegrate into society after they each lost a leg during the First World War. Tired of being underestimated because of their disabilities, they decided to hike, on crutches, from Alberta to Ontario.

They embarked on their journey almost 60 years before Terry Fox made history with his Marathon of Hope .

But unlike Fox, Hincks and McDougall have been, by and large, forgotten by history — until historian Eric Story came across their names in an old military magazine and decided to share their incredible feat .

“It's truly unfathomable,” Story, a postdoctoral researcher at Western University in London, On

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