The Heritage Minute follows the story of Chanie (Charlie) Wenjack, who attended Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School in Kenora, Ont., in the 1960s. At age 12, he ran away. He had been gone a ...

It was an ongoing fascination with the story of Chanie Wenjack, and especially a photo of him, that prompted Joseph Boyden to write Canada's most recent Heritage Minute about residential schools. The ...

Chanie Wenjack died 50 years ago this month ... Author Joseph Boyden wrote a Heritage Minute about the boy that was released earlier this summer and has just put out the slim but heart-wrenching ...

Over the years, Heritage Minutes have celebrated ... shameful chapters of our country’s history. Entitled “Chanie Wenjack,” the minute chronicles the escape of a young boy from Ontario ...

A photo of Chanie Wenjack, held by his sister Pearl Achneepineskum, seen in a Canadian Heritage Minute. (Historica Canada) "Gord and I, we knew so little about residential schools," Mike says.

This will be Downie’s legacy. The tragic story of Chanie Wenjack is featured in a Heritage Minute and inspired Gord Downie’s latest album, Secret Path. That’s how he sees it, clearly.

Two new Heritage Minutes seek to shed light ... "It's been called cultural genocide," she says in the Minute named his honour: Chanie Wenjack. "I survived residential school." ...

Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie revealed Friday he will release a new solo album in October inspired by the death of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old First Nations child who died while fleeing a ...

The idea came to him after watching a Heritage Minute about Chanie Wenjack, and began to take shape during a visit to a Halifax restaurant in 2016. Since then, many Legacy Spaces have opened ...