List of people who have walked across Canada

He began his journey on 6 March 2023 from the Terry Fox memorial in St. John's, NL and completed his 7,000-kilometre, 160-day trek on 12 August in Port Coquitlam, BC.

Fonyo began his Journey for Lives run on 31 March 1984 at age 18 and completed it 425 days later on 29 May 1985, covering 7,924 km (4,924 mi).

Trevor Redmond walked from Stanley Park, BC to the east coast of Canada and back, between 2006 and 2007, for cancer prevention, research and awareness.

He made his journey in 1895: departing Vancouver, BC on 2 March 1895 and arriving in Halifax, NS twelve months later.

[20][21] In 1906, on a bet and a dare, John Hugh Gillis walked from North Sydney, NS to Vancouver, BC.

As part of his Man in Motion World Tour, a 26-month trek in a wheelchair to create awareness of the potential of people with disabilities and to find a cure for paralysis after spinal cord injury, Rick Hansen logged 40,075 km[23] through 34 countries on four continents (North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia)[24] before crossing Canada.

Steve Hartwig, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran suffering from PTSD that resulted from a posting to the war zone in the former Yugoslavia, walked from Vancouver, BC to St. John's, NL in 2014.

[25] He left Vancouver on 23 June 2014 and arrived in St. John's on 13 Sept. Each day on the journey he walked a 32-km forced march, also called a military hike.

Heard paid for his trip by selling postcards of himself, at 10 cents apiece (he claimed to have sold 18,000 of them[30]); staying in hotels and buying his own food.

[31] After a rest in Halifax, he began his return trip on 1 February 1940 and took two years and ten months to reach Vancouver (in December 1942).

His first cross-country transit was widely reported in newspapers all over the US and Canada; however, his return journey was only featured in the Canadian press.

Her 7,831 km transit is recognised by Guinness World Records as the fastest crossing of Canada on foot (female).

[37] He set out on 1 April 2024 from St Johns, Newfoundland and arrived in Victoria, British Columbia on 7 July 2024, 99 days later.

[38] In 2013–2014, Jamie McDonald ran across Canada (wearing a Flash costume) and raised a quarter of a million British pounds for children's charities.

Michael Yellowlees completed an 8,000-kilometre fundraising walk across Canada on 5 December 2021 when he arrived at Cape Spear on the eastern edge of Newfoundland.