The Confederation Bridge will be closed to traffic on Sunday in honour of the 45th anniversary of the Terry Fox run.
Over 10,000 pedestrians who have registered will be permitted to run or walk across.
“The very first Confederation Bridge, Terry Fox Run, happened in 2005 as part of the 25th anniversary, and then it happened again in 2010 and in 2015. Of course, it couldn’t happen in 2020 due to COVID. So 10 years later, we’re doing it again. I think it’s amazing. It’s really the only time in a year that, in any year, the bridge is shut down for pedestrian traffic,” Terry’s brother Fred Fox told our newsroom.
Confederation Bridge will be closed from 6 am until 1pm on September 21.
Fox says his brother obviously didn’t get to cross the bridge because it wasn’t around when he did his run.
“Terry would have been running from New Brunswick to get over to Prince Edward Island. I read every now and then a bit of Terry’s journal. When he took the ferry over to Prince Edward Island back in 1980, he actually ran on the ferry to make up the mileage,” Fred said.
He adds that it’s amazing to know that so many years later, people are continuing what Terry started, “Terry said, even if I don’t finish, we need others to continue. It has to keep going without me, and that’s what so many Canadians are doing, young and old. One of the things that Terry would say is, we’ll all be touched by cancer in one way or another, and that’s why it was important for him.”
Festivities will be held on both sides of the Confederation Bridge, in both New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
For those taking part, more information can be found on the Terry Fox Foundation website.
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