{"id":11671,"date":"2015-04-07T11:27:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:33:51","slug":"carleton-grad-helps-commemorate-a-canadian-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2015\/carleton-grad-helps-commemorate-a-canadian-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Grad Helps Commemorate a Canadian Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Grad Helps Commemorate a Canadian Hero\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
\"Terry
“TerryFoxToronto19800712” by Jeremy Gilbert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

According to a 2010 national Canadian Studies survey, 9 of 10 Canadians remember Terry Fox. For these respondents, his name is synonymous with \u201chero,\u201d \u201ccourage,\u201d \u201cdetermination,\u201d and \u201ctenacity.\u201d On the 35th anniversary of Terry\u2019s Marathon of Hope, the Canadian Museum of History has launched an exhibit, \u201cTerry Fox: Running to the Heart of Canada,\u201d<\/a> and Carleton History graduate Erin Gurski (MA History 2014) played a pivotal role in its development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erin describes the experience of working on the exhibit as \u201cboth more challenging and more rewarding than I could have imagined.\u201d She explains that she “was brought on as a research assistant in charge of sifting through all photographs, video and audio materials about Terry from 1980 searching for content for the Exhibition. This role was expanded to include tracking down people Terry met along the way, writing and designing the interactive parts of the exhibition with the team and, finally, working with the curator to develop the exhibition catalogue.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terry touched the lives of millions through his 5,300 km run from St. John\u2019s to Thunder Bay. His mother, Betty Fox, preserved the 50,000 letters and hundreds of thousands of cards and gifts that bear witness to her son\u2019s heroic legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview on CBC\u2019s All in a Day<\/a>, Erin recounts the experience of interacting with artifacts such as the scrapbooks created by ordinary Canadians, as well as the iconic sock that Terry wore on his artificial leg. \u201cI had read about it, and knew that it existed as an artifact, but it\u2019s completely different when you go down to actually look at these pieces in person and you realize that this is the real sock that Terry refused to change even though there are multiple holes in it, it\u2019s stained all over and I\u2019m not even sure it\u2019s in the shape of a sock anymore. It was a real indication of his courage, and his determination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit is complemented by a Terry Fox memory book<\/a>, for which Erin is co-author with Dr. Sheldon Posen. The book is made up of the scrapbook pages curated by ordinary Canadians and images by photographers who immortalized the Marathon of Hope, along with Terry\u2019s own words from his journal, speeches and interviews. The book is available for purchase on the Canadian Museum of History\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read more about Erin\u2019s experience \u201cExhibiting a Canadian Legend\u201d on the Museum of Canadian History\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a 2010 national Canadian Studies survey, 9 of 10 Canadians remember Terry Fox. For these respondents, his name is synonymous with \u201chero,\u201d \u201ccourage,\u201d \u201cdetermination,\u201d and \u201ctenacity.\u201d On the 35th anniversary of Terry\u2019s Marathon of Hope, the Canadian Museum of History has launched an exhibit, \u201cTerry Fox: Running to the Heart of Canada,\u201d and Carleton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[146,1],"tags":[116,22],"class_list":["post-11671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-student-projects","category-news","tag-alumni","tag-graduate"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26363,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions\/26363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}