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After much than 3 decades of grassroots fundraising, Jim Terrion has yet reached his extremity of raising $1 cardinal for the Terry Fox Foundation.

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Hanna Petersen · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 5:27 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Jim Terrion holds a motion that reads Million Dollar Jim aft raising implicit $1million for the Terry Fox Foundation since 1991.

After much than 3 decades of grassroots fundraising, Jim Terrion has yet reached his extremity of raising $1 cardinal for the Terry Fox Foundation.

Terrion, who was calved deaf, has been raising wealth for the instauration since 1991. A $5,000 donation he received connected June 10 got him crossed the decorativeness line.

"It's beauteous exciting" Terrion said. "There's truthful overmuch joyousness and determination has been truthful overmuch enactment to get this goal. I'm implicit the top. I conscionable wanted to enactment toward a cure for cancer."

Family and friends airs for a photograph with Fred Fox and Jim Terrion who has raised implicit $1 cardinal for the Terry Fox Foundation.

Terrion said he remembers watching the Marathon of Hope connected TV, including the infinitesimal Fox dipped his prosthetic limb into the Atlantic Ocean to footwear disconnected his journey.

He said helium was profoundly inspired by Fox's ambition.

In 1990, astatine the property of 29, Terrion decided to locomotion crossed the country to raise consciousness for radical who are deaf or hard of hearing, which helium called the "Silent Walk."

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Supporters greet Jim Terrion extracurricular Vancouver City Hall successful 1990, 9 months aft helium acceptable retired connected his Silent Walk to rise consciousness astir radical with proceeding disabilities. As CBC News reports, Terrion's locomotion inspired a instrumentalist to constitute a opus astir him.

In conscionable 8 months, helium walked astir 10,000 kilometres and raised $150,000 for organizations that assistance radical who are deaf or hard of hearing.

The pursuing twelvemonth helium began to fundraise for the Terry Fox Foundation.

Terry Fox's member Fred hugs Jim Terrion

Despite challenges communicating arsenic a deaf person, Terrion went door-to-door asking for donations successful his location assemblage of Prince Rupert.

He raised $7,586.25 successful his archetypal year, and has been fundraising ever since, raising wealth successful some Prince Rupert and Prince George, wherever he's lived since 2006.

"He's got that determination and dedication precisely similar Terry had," said Fred Fox, Terry's older brother.

"He recognized that Terry had a disability. Terry was an amputee. He took from that – though their disabilities are antithetic – if Terry tin bash something, truthful could he."

Jim Terrion lifts his hands successful solemnisation successful beforehand of a motion showing his fundraising total.

Fred attended the assemblage solemnisation of Terrion's accomplishment astatine the Terry Fox statue successful Prince George.

Fox, who was raised successful Port Coquitlam, B.C, took portion successful a roadworthy contention successful Prince George successful 1979, which gave him the assurance to commencement the Marathon of Hope.

Prince George Mayor Simon Yu said it was an honour to officially proclaim the week of June 9 to 15 as Million Dollar Jim Week.

"I cognize that travel for Jim and for Fred is not going to beryllium over," Yu said. "The walk, the runs, the fundraising volition transportation on."

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Fred Fox said helium is thankful for Terrion's work.

"Jim and truthful galore Canadians, radical astir the world, person taken up the situation Terry gave us and he'd beryllium truthful arrogant to cognize that Jim has reached this goal," helium said.

"I deliberation Jim and Terry would beryllium champion of buddies today."

With his extremity present complete, Terrion said helium volition proceed raising wealth for crab research.