Search results

Squire Foundation, BC Wheelchair Sports (BCWCS) and The Disability Foundation. Spinal Cord Injury BC ( formerly the BC Paraplegic Association) is a branch of...

Cadieux, formerly the director of marketing and development for the BC Paraplegic Association and manager of accessibility for 2010 Legacies Now Society. Her...

elected to a legislature in Canada. A founding member of the BC Paraplegic Association, he was the organization's executive director from 1962 until...

Senator and Olympic alpine skier, appointed 2004 Richard M. Hansen CC OBC, paraplegic athlete and activist, appointed 1990 Walter Hardwick OBC, teacher and...

to be important. They are not supporters of inclusion", SCI BC (BC Paraplegic Association) Executive Director Chris McBride said, contrasting Canada's...

at the age of 15, Hansen sustained a spinal cord injury and became a paraplegic. Hansen is most famous for his Man in Motion World Tour, in which he circled...

centre in BC after his daughter sustained a spinal cord injury. Dr. Strong joined with the Western Division of the Paraplegic Association to realise...

user) Liesl Tesch, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (paraplegic, wheelchair user) Kelly Vincent, member of the South Australian Legislative...

1930. As time progressed, the Games evolved, adding the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games for athletes with a disability (who were barred from competing from...

and SF Net; Mike Browne, who had a skiing accident in 1993 making him paraplegic, the founder of Snow and Rock, now owned by Cotswold Outdoor; Lisa Jean...

5, and an individual with the highest degree of disability (such as a paraplegic with a complete injury below the chest) would be classified as a 1.0....

Archived 2010-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association 2005 World Wheelchair and Amputee Games Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback...

known as "Wheels", due to being confined to a wheelchair, as he is a paraplegic owing to an vehicle incident, but he was considered one of the most important...

events at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, held in Tel Aviv. McPherson became paraplegic in infancy, after surviving polio. She used arm crutches, leg braces,...

preparing and serving a meal. FRIEND make it possible for patients who are paraplegic, have muscle diseases or serious paralysis (due to strokes etc.), to perform...

voluntary control and no inhibition or facilitation from higher centers. Some paraplegic patients train themselves to initiate voiding by pinching or stroking...

participated in fundraising for Canadian Paraplegic Association and performed on the piano at Cecil Green Alumni Association for University of British Columbia...

retired at the age of 58. Neroli Fairhall, a paraplegic archer from New Zealand, was the first paraplegic competitor, and the third Paralympian, to participate...

injuries. One of the athletes assisted by the foundation ended up as paraplegic and credits the foundation and the EE Alumni with enabling him to obtain...

Retrieved September 6, 2015. "Terry Fox Hall of Fame". Canadian Paraplegic Association. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved April 24...