Terry Fox was offered a car to run with Mr. Peanut. He said he'd wear the mascot himself, author reveals

Front and centre on the cover of Bill Vigars’s new book, Terry & Me: The Inside Story of the Marathon of Hope, is a photo of Terry Fox smiling. 

“I think people remember Terry from the picture of him running with pain, the look of pain on his face,” Vigars told CBC’s On the Coast host Gloria Macarenko on Aug. 29. 

“But I remember him with the smile.” 

The book, released on Aug. 29, is about the Marathon of Hope from Vigars’s perspective as he accompanied Fox.

Vigars, a White Rock, B.C., resident and former director of public relations and fundraising for the Canadian Cancer Society, met Fox in 1980 in New Brunswick.

It had been 50 days since the 21-year-old

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