Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canadas west coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma bone cancer and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres six inches above the knee in 1977.

Address: The Terry Fox Foundation, Suite 303, 46167 Yale Road, Chilliwack, BC, V2P 2P2
Telephone: 604 701-0246
Fax: 604 701-0247
Website: http://www.terryfox.org/contact.html