Fund Type: Memorial
Community: Prince George
The Mavrik Turnbull Legacy Fund was established to receive donations and community support on behalf of the Mavrik Turnbull Foundation.
Mavrik was a three year old boy from Prince George, who battled stage 4, high-risk, neuroblastoma for 21 months before passing. Mavrik learned to walk around 8 months with a hockey stick in his hand and would refuse to leave the house without a jersey on. Mavrik was diagnosed with cancer shortly after his second birthday. What mattered most to Mavrik at that time was hockey. When he was airlifted from Prince George to Vancouver, he had to bring his hockey sticks. Mavrik fought through treatment by playing hockey, watching hockey, and doing anything hockey (hockey cards, hockey Lego, hockey board games) and especially hockey games. Any break between treatment we brought Mavrik to a hockey game. Mavrik’s favourite songs were O’Canada, The Hockey Song, We Will Rock You, and Wow (the Cougars goal song). Mavrik truly lived and breathed hockey.
