Chanie Wenjack died 50 years ago this month: The Ojibwa boy froze by the side of Northern Ontario train tracks after running away from a residential school. Although his death resulted in Canada's ...

Artists of all stripes are creating new works to honour the little boy who ran away from residential school 50 years ago this month. Here’s why. The story has all the hallmarks of great tragedy: an ...

Walk on through the snow. Heading down the railway line, Trying to make it home. Well, he's made it 40 miles, Six hundred left to go. It's a long old lonesome journey, Shufflin' through the snow." - ...

If there’s one thing you don’t expect to find in the middle of a garden show, it’s a railroad track. Amidst the shrubbery and tool displays at this year’s Canada Blooms event, a landscaped pathway ...

Secret Path is a multi-media project being released in Canada this November, from Gord Downie, Jeff Lemire and more. As a music album, comic book and TV animated movie. Downie is a Canadian rock ...

A cadre of Canadian authors and artists have created several projects to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Chanie Wenjack, a First Nations boy, and to speak to Canadians about the injustices ...

In October 1966, the body of a 12-year-old Anishinaabe boy was found beside an isolated rail line in the northern Ontario bush. Chanie Wenjack had run away from a Kenora residential school. His death ...

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National week of events taking place from October 17-22 to promote awareness around reconciliation, highlighted by Walk for Wenjack and a special broadcast of Secret Path Live. "My family is so ...