• Compounding the problems of Terry and Darrell Fox and driver Doug Alward was the fact that the three British Columbians spoke no French. According to author Leslie Scrivener, the young men would simply point to what they wanted in grocery stores, and did without showers because they had no idea how to ask for one. "I felt like an idiot, an alien from another planet," Doug Alward said, "so we went four or five days without a wash."



• Near Quebec City, Terry hit a low point. "I am tired and weary because people are continually forcing me off the road," he wrote in his diary entry for June 15, 1980. "I was actually honked off once." He tried moving from Highway 20 to the freeway, with its paved shoulder, but Quebec provincial police told him it was unsafe.

• Despite the setbacks, Terry greatly enjoyed visiting old Quebec City, admiring the churches, statues and cobbled streets.



• Terry received a warmer reception in Montreal. His group stayed in a luxury hotel room courtesy of Four Seasons Hotels president Isadore Sharp, who had lost a son to cancer. Sharp paid for full-page newspaper ads that read, "Let's make Terry's run really count." The chain donated two dollars for each mile Terry ran, and challenged 999 other corporations to do likewise.



• To slow down his pace so he'd arrive in Ottawa on Dominion Day (now Canada Day), Terry took his first day off in 73 days on June 23 in Montreal. He tried to relax, but the pause only made him edgy.

• 1980 was the year of Quebec's first referendum on sovereignty. It was defeated on May 20, 1980. Terry was interested in the referendum and felt that, despite its differences, Quebec was a part of Canada.



• No recordings of Terry Fox's run through Quebec exist in the CBC Archives.

• Terry Fox entered Ontario at the town of Hawkesbury on June 28, 1980, the day before this interview was recorded. He was greeted by a brass band and the release of thousands of balloons printed with the slogan, "WELCOME TERRY. YOU CAN DO IT."



• In Ottawa, Terry and his crew met Gov. Gen. Ed Schreyer and his wife Lily at Government House. (Darrell Fox recalls feeling a bit silly wearing shorts and a T-shirt to the meeting.)

• Terry made the opening kickoff at a CFL game between Ottawa and Saskatchewan. He opted to kick with his good leg. The crowd of 16,000 gave him a standing ovation.



• Terry's July 4, 1980, meeting with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was disappointing. Trudeau had just returned from Venice, and didn't know who Fox was. After an awkward meeting in a House of Commons hallway, Fox asked the normally adventurous Trudeau to run half a mile with him. Trudeau declined.