~ Oversized Paperback Graphic Novel, (30.5 x 30.5cm)
Secret Path tells the story of Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack, a twelve-year-old boy who died in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School fifty years ago . . .
Acknowledging a dark part of Canada’s history, Secret Path is a graphic novel from iconic musician Gord Downie and illustrator Jeff Lemire that addresses the long suppressed mistreatment of Indigenous children and families by the residential school system with the hope of starting our country on a road to reconciliation.
Every year as we remember Chanie Wenjack, the hope for Secret Path is that it educates all Canadians young and old on this omitted part of our history, urging our entire nation to play an active role in the preservation of Indigenous lives and culture in Canada.