- 'The Secret Path' The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund Legacy Room. -
«Our garden tells a story of 12-year-old CHANIE WENJACK. In 1966 he ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario, and tried to walk home to Ogoki Post - 600 kilometers away.»
Between the early 1800 and 1996, over 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families. They were sent away to residential schools run by churches and funded by the Canadian government. The children were forbidden to speak their language and practice their culture - they were a force to assimilate into «White Canada».
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