Terry Fox exhibit to open at Canadian Museum of History

If you’re in the National Capital Region later this year you can stop into the Canadian Museum of History to see a temporary Terry Fox exhibit, commemorating the 35th anniversary of his Marathon of Hope.

Terry Fox began his run on April 12. 1980 in St. John’s, N.L., and was forced to stop running in Thunder Bay, Ont. when his cancer returned. The exhibit in Gatineau, Que., will open on April 1, 2015.

In 2013, the Fox family donated nearly 200,000 items with some connection to Terry or his marathon to be turned into a national exhibit. It has been named the Terry Fox Collection. Most of these items are kept in the Library and Archives Canada vault outside Vancouver, though some of the most important pieces are being used in the upcoming exhibit, which will stay open until 2016.

The items will include the clothing Terry wore during his run and a bottle he filled with water from the Atlantic Ocean when he left St. John’s.

Entrance to the exhibit will be included with admission to the museum.