num_pages: 96
description: Secret Path is a ten song album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by illustrator Jeff Lemire that 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.Chanie misnamed Charlie by his teachers was a young boy who died on October 22 1966 walking the railroad tracks trying to escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School to return home. Chanies home was 400 miles away. He didnt know that. He didnt know where it was nor how to find it but like so many kidsmore than anyone will be able to imaginehe tried.
language: English
title: Secret Path
publisher: Simon & Schuster