Mount Terry Fox Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the Rocky Mountains near Mount Robson and the city of Valemount, British Columbia. The park and Mount Terry Fox, which is within the park, are named in honor of amputee long-distance runner and cancer research activist Terry Fox, a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba who grew up in British Columbia.
Famous quotes containing the words mount, terry, fox, provincial and/or park:
“My name shall mount upon Eternitie.”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
“The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.”
—Richard Rowland. A Million and One Nights, vol. 2, ch. 79, Terry Ramsaye (1926)
“Many scraps make a lot; fox furs, sewn together, make a fine robe.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Therefore awake! make haste, I say,
And let us, without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the Park a-maying!”
—Unknown. Sister, Awake! (L. 9–12)