Brandon University history student Paige Meikle’s research project has led to the Government of Canada recognizing Chanie Wenjack as a person of national historic significance. As we navigate ...

The report revealed that around 175,000 master tapes and a half a million songs were lost ... it’s a great story set to an amazing melody. Chanie Wenjack's story is a haunting reminder of ...

Their swan song, August 20, 2016 ... s illness the Secret Path film for his multimedia solo project about Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old Anishinaabe boy who died in 1966 after escaping from ...

Soon enough, their evolving sound, idiosyncratic original songs and hypnotic live ... Through his album (and accompanying graphic novel) Secret Path, the dad of four introduced Canadians to the story ...

TORONTO - On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Chanie Wenjack's passing, Gord Downie offered an impassioned retelling of his story through a collection of songs honouring the late indigenous boy.

Chanie Wenjack never made it home. But he certainly tried — “more than anyone will be able to imagine,” as the late Gord Downie put it in an introduction to The Secret Path, a set of songs he recorded ...

Chanie Wenjack never made it home ... an introduction to The Secret Path, a set of songs he recorded in the boy’s memory, also made into a graphic novel. Wenjack died on Oct. 22, 1966, while ...

“You start with the music and you listen to a few of these songs. They could be from those first six ... While looking for new projects, Mike told Gord about the story of Chanie Wenjack, an Indigenous ...

But the song wasn’t just a hymn to our national railroad ... the mills and the factories for the good of us all,” the body of 12-year-old Anishinaabe boy Chanie Wenjack was found by a CPR engineer ...

had taken an interest in Chanie Wenjack and created The Secret Path, a graphic novel, video and 10-song album designed to raise awareness about the cruelty of residential schools. At the end of a ...