The Paralympic torch relay started in Esquimalt and then proceeded by boat to Victoria. Dave Dewhirst gets the hand off from the first person to carry the torch, Capt. Trevor Greene, a reservist who suffered a severe head injury in a 2006 axe attack during a village meeting in Afghanistan. Greene, now 45, is still recovering and learning to walk on his own in VICTORIA B.C. February  12, 2010. More Images »  Debra Brash, Times Colonist

VICTORIA '€” Trevor Greene won a gold medal Saturday in the hearts of those who watched the former Canadian Forces reservist push his wheelchair slowly down Lyall Street in Esquimalt, moving the Paralymic flame on the first of a 31-leg tour of Greater Victoria.

No one put more effort into the task than Greene, a former Canadian Forces reservist who was struck in the head with an axe in Afghanistan in 2006, leaving him paralyzed and unable to breathe without assistance.


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