![]() ![]() ![]() Gord Downie's Secret Path brings hope to Chanie Wenjack's family, 50 years after boy's death.'I want the reader to be Chanie:' Joseph Boyden tells Chanie Wenjack's story."It was one of the few times that a national publication had exposed this dark national secret," Joseph Boyden said in the author's note of his new book, Wenjack, where he refers to Wenjack by his family nickname, Chanie. ![]() This fall, two Canadian cultural icons are crediting it as the source of inspiration for new works that tell the story of Wenjack's death after running away from residential school. "Don't let the cynics tell you that journalism is written to be forgotten," says writer Ian Adams, 79, reflecting on an article he wrote finding the national spotlight, nearly 50 years after it was published.Īdams wrote "The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack" for Maclean's magazine in 1967. ![]()
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