Quinn Strang, 20, of Moncton decided to hitchhike across Canada — following the same route set by Canadian legend Terry Fox — to raise $100,000 for the IWK Health Centre in Halifax and the Terry Fox Foundation.
Quinn Strang was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma when he was 15
Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: May 25, 2026 11:39 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Quinn Strang is hitchhiking across Canada for cancer research. (Ben Ford/CBC)
Quinn Strang had never hitchhiked before. Until a little over a week ago.
The 20-year-old from Moncton decided to hitchhike across Canada — following the same route set by Canadian legend Terry Fox in 1980 — to raise $100,000 for the IWK Health Centre in Halifax and the Terry Fox Foundation.
“My uncle hitchhiked Canada back in the day, so he got the idea in my head, and when I was figuring out my route and decided to follow Terry Fox’s, that’s when I made up my plan,” Strang said.
“And my plan consisted of peanut butter and a change of clothes.”
And while a young man on the side of the road wearing a rainbow propeller hat — for visibility and approachability purposes — might provoke some mixed reactions,
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