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CHRIS DAY​

CFB Esquimalt Firefighter

There isn’t a day that goes by that Day, 45, doesn’t think about his gentle and thoughtful older brother Andrew and what life would have been like had he survived childhood cancer. Instead, Andrew died at age 14. 

“I feel like having battled cancer twice at that young age he would’ve grown up living life to its fullest and not wasting any moment,” said Day. “He would’ve made a great parent and an amazing uncle, too.”

Chris also had a front-row seat to the toll this journey took on his parents: “It’s something that no family should have to go through.”

Day grew up around the Cowichan Valley and Ladysmith. He worked over two decades for Duncan Paving, a division of OK Industries. For the past ten years he’s been a firefighter at CFB Esquimalt Fire Rescue.

Married with two kids – Carter, 9, and Lauren, 6 – and a golden retriever, Day enjoys mountain biking, triathlons, coaching his kids and landscaping.

Day considers himself lucky to be selected as a rider for the eight-member End2End team. “I am very honoured. It’s an amazing group of people behind End2End, people who know how to pull this off. 

“I am very excited to be a part of it and I know the residents of Vancouver Island will be just as excited to see the money raised will stay on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands,” he said.