Post #3709979
2026-07-10 05:22 UTC
This is the original location of the Terry Fox memorial on the south side of what is now higheay 17 (was rural route 17 back then with only 2 lanes). Today, it has been moved north with an "exit" from highway and shops, toilets etc.
This humbled me quite a bit. I thought I was pretty good crossing Canada by bike and usually surpassing 200km per day. But this put me right back down. Dude with one leg with cancer ran from Newfoundland to just before Thunder Bay before being forced to abandon
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@jfmezei@cosocial.ca 2026-07-10 05:24
As well, 1986 was year Rick Hansen went around the world in wheelchair (Man in Motion tour) and not long after I arrived Montréal he passed through Montréal on his way to Vancouver and would have had to ensure rural route 17 through Ontario like I did. (though police closed road in the most dangerous stretches for him)