Highway 11/Highway 17 proceeds southeast for to Thunder Bay, then northeast for to Nipigon. An segment of the Trans-Canada Highway between Thunder Bay and Nipigon is commemorated as the "Terry Fox Courage Highway". Fox was forced to abandon his cross-country Marathon of Hope run here, and a bronze statue of him was later erected in his honour. The highway is the only road that connects eastern and western Canada. On January 10, 2016, the Nipigon River Bridge suffered a mechanical failure, closing the Trans-Canada Highway for 17 hours; the only alternative was to go through the United States, around the south side of Lake Superior.