That same morning Charlie’s best friend, Eddie Cameron, showed up at the Kelly cabin. symbolizes both death and rebirth with how Gord Downie’s Secret Path about Chanie Wenjack’s tragic death is spreading awareness about the painful truths of residential schools. He died trying to walk 400 miles home to his father, who lives and works on an isolated reservation in northern Ontario. I couldn’t let them run around in the bush. The three boys stayed with Ralph and Jackie's uncle, Charley Kelly, in Redditt. They circled the Kenora airfield and struck out north through the bush over a “secret trail” children at the school like to use. Secret Path Week is a national week to remember the death of Chanie Wenjack, a young Anishinaabe boy who died trying to run away from residential school and reunite with his parents. From “ The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack ”: “All Charlie had was a common windbreaker. Helpful. We have republished that cover story below in its original form, in which Chanie’s teachers misnamed him Charlie. There are few areas in the country that are more forbidding. Coroner Dr. Glenn Davidson determined the cause of the death was attributed to exposure and hunger. Wenjack had only a light windbreaker and walked for 36 hours in the wind as the temperature dropped to −6 °C (21 °F). © Copyright 2021 St. Joseph Communications. It is even doubtful if his father really understood either. Because nothing ever really changes around here.”. There’s not much else to say about Charlie Wenjack, except that on November 17 an inquest was held in the Kenora Magistrate’s Court. Later he and his wife Clara would refer to Charlie as “the stranger.” The Kellys had no idea where Charlie’s reserve was or how to get there. The story of the 12-year-old boy who froze to death beside the railway tracks while trying to walk 600 kilometres home is getting a very public retelling through Gord Downie's multi-media project, Secret Path. The story of the 12-year-old boy who froze to death beside the railway tracks while trying to walk 600 kilometres home is getting a very public retelling through Gord Downie's multi-media project, Secret Path. Charlie only knew “his dad lived a long way away. The school, a bleak institutional building, stands on a few acres on the northeast outskirts of Kenora. Most of the people who have been mentioned in this story were there. And the jury was obviously moved. Charlie wasn’t a strong boy. “Indian children’s early medical records are practically impossible to track down,” explains Kenora’s public-health doctor, P. F. Playfair. At that time the staff were all new and still trying to match names to faces. View Full Article. 156087739, citing Ogoki Cemetery, Ogoki, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada ; Maintained by … Next month will mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Chanie Wenjack. The MacDonald boys are orphans — their parents were killed in a train accident two years ago. The album, dubbed Secret Path, was released on October 18, 2016,[7][8] along with a concurrent graphic novel of Wenjack's story by novelist Jeff Lemire and an animated film which aired on CBC Television. In fact, he was thin and sickly. But as Eddie remembers. Today, 23 October, is the 52nd anniversary of Chanie Wenjack’s death. The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack – Macleans. Ethical questions were raised and it brought to light the abuse and treatment of indigenous children in the residential school system. [1][2], His body was discovered beside the track at 11:20 am on October 23 by Elwood McIvor, a CN railway engineer on freight train number No. The Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie wrote a concept album based on Wenjack's escape. And Charlie would tell Eddie that he was going to leave soon to go home to his father. She also gave him a plateful of fried potatoes mixed with strips of bacon. Is it right?”. An Anishinaabe boy, at age 12, he ran away from his residential school and subsequently died from hunger and exposure to the weather. The Sunday they went to pick up Charlie’s body, intermittent snow and sleet blew through Kenora’s streets. The bush undulates back from the railroad tracks like a bleak and desolate carpet. On November 19, 2016, we set out from the former site of the Residential school and retraced the final journey of Chanie. They put him in a coffin and took him back to Redditt and put him on the train with his three little sisters, who were also at the Cecilia Jeffrey School. Chanie Wenjack was a 12-year-old Anishinaabe child who died of hunger and exposure in 1966 when he ran away from a residential school in Kenora. Chanie was 12, and Indigenous. “We? Nobody told him to stay either. Chanie was 12, and Indigenous. He attended Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario. He collapsed and died sometime on the morning of October 23 in a rock cut near Farlane. Occasionally, one of them dies. A year after Wenjack's death an article written by journalist Ian Adams, "The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack," was published in February 1967 in Maclean's magazine. He died while trying to walk 600 km back home. He spent last year in what is called a junior opportunity class. HERITAGE MINUTES. As soon as they were clear of the school, the three boys hit that strange running walk with which young Indian boys can cover 10 miles in an hour. He was headed home when he died of exposure on October 23, Chanie’s attempt to return home and see his father led to his death on the side of railway tracks by hunger and exposure to harsh weather. “I never said nothing to that,” says Kelly. At the age of nine, he was sent, along with his two sisters, to board at the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora. Evidence given at the inquest into his death showed that he had made his way another 20 km (12 mi) east along the CN mainline. He saw Charlie’s body lying beside the track. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the death of 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack, who died on October 22, 1966 after fleeing Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in northwestern Ontario. His principal of last year, Velda MacMillan, believed she got to know him well. He was headed home when he died of exposure on October 23, On November 17 an inquest was begun and a report was commissioned and determined that: The Indian education system causes tremendous emotional & adjustment problems for these children. “That’s what they do to themselves,” he said in a tone of amused contempt. Silence. Its title is simply Wenjack. The school was funded by the Canadian government and overseen by the Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church. And perhaps because they are Indians, no one seems to care very much. He collapsed and died sometime on the morning of October 23 in a rock cut near Farlane. The largest lecture hall on campus was subsequently named Wenjack Theatre in Wenjack's honour. It’s obvious he cares about his nephews. Today marks the 54th anniversary of the tragic death of Chanie Wenjack, an Anishinaabe boy, who at the tender age of 12, ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School run by The Presbyterian Church in Canada to return home, only to be found … … Some 150 Indian children live at the school but are integrated into the local school system. It was late at night when the three boys got to Redditt: it had taken them more than eight hours. Wikipedia. The project began as ten poems written by Gord as he imagined what it would be like to be Chanie. BUY DIGITAL MINUTE; BUY DVD; … Chanie had frozen to death. He, too, had run away from the school. Fifty years after Chanie Wenjack's tragic death while running away from residential school, his sister says it's time every First Nation had its own school. Consequently, Cecilia Jeffrey is, for 10 months in the year, really nothing more than an enormous dormitory. “It’s a story that should be told,” said the section foreman, Ed Beaudry. Charlie Wenjack was an Ojibway Indian attending Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ont. In their own way they tried to do their duty. Slipping away was simple. Kelly is their uncle and favorite relative. The kid wouldn’t give me his name. It was one week after he escaped from the residential school and over 60km from where he started. In 1967, a Maclean’s cover story told the tragic tale of Chanie Wenjack, an Indigenous boy who died after running away from his residential school in northern Ontario. Yes, they were lonesome. The 84th Heritage Minute in Historica Canada's collection. Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack (January 19, 1954 – October 23, 1966) was an Ojibwe boy who was famous for running away from a residential school. When he left Kelly and his nephews and set out to walk home to his father. Chanie’s story sparked national conversation about the standards and practices of Residential Schools. The jury found that “the Indian education system causes tremendous emotional and adjustment problems.” They suggested that the school be staffed adequately so that the children could develop personal relationships with the staff, and that more effort be given to boarding children in private homes. After four days with the Kellys, Wenjack left to follow the Canadian National Railway (CN) mainline, heading towards Ogoki Post, 600 km (370 mi) east and north from Kenora. In the following days of loneliness that map was to become the focus of his longings to get back to his father. Chanie Wenjack. By Ian Adams He died October 22, 1966, near Redditt, Ontario. The book follows Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old Ojibweboy, as he escapes from a Northern Ontarioresidential schoolin the futile hopes of returning home to his family and two dogs. The girl bought a pack of cigarettes, and then on the way out held the door open for the woman, who crawled out on her hands and knees and collapsed on the sidewalk. This fall he wasn’t quite good enough to go back into the grade system, so he was placed in what is called a senior opportunity class. Chanie was born January 19, 1954. An Indian woman in an alcoholic stupor was on her hands and knees on the floor, trying to get out the door. They said if I sent them back they would run away again. The temperature was between –1° and –6° C. It is not hard to imagine the hopelessness of his thoughts. [1][2], On October 27, 1966, Wenjack was buried at the cemetery on the reserve beside the Albany River.[1][2]. The sudden drop in temperature can leave a man dressed in a warm parka shaking with cold. Kelly cooked and divided them among the four boys. Chanie Wenjack was a young Anishinaabe boy from Ogoki Post in Marten Falls In Northern Ontario, Canada. The arm turned gangrenous and was amputated. “If you swear on that book to tell the truth, and you tell lies, you will be punished.” Which seemed unnecessary because, as Crown Attorney E. C. Burton pointed out, a juvenile doesn’t have to be sworn in at an inquest. On November 19, 2016, we set out from the former site of the Residential school and retraced the final journey of Chanie. On March 9, 2018 Trent University marked the official launch of the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies. He didn’t eat anything himself but he drank some tea with the others. Published in October 2016, a novella by Canadian author Joseph Boyden focused on the suffering Wenjack endured and his state of mind during his ordeal. An hour later a section crew and two police officers went out to bring Charlie’s body back. Boyden's superb text is accompanied by outstanding illustrations. RELEASED 2016. The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack Chanie was 12, and Indigenous. Wenjack only brought seven matches. It started at the Cecillia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, ON, and continued to Redditt, ON for a ceremony representing Chanie's final resting spot near Farlane, ON. At Sioux Lookout the little party picked up Charlie’s mother. Kelly is a small man in his 50s. February 1, 1967. It started at the Cecillia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, ON, and continued to Redditt, ON for a ceremony representing Chanie's final resting spot near Farlane, ON. Today the story of Wenjack has been seen as a symbol of resistance against the residential school system. The two boys Chanie was with, brothers, made their way to their uncle’s home but Chanie continued on alone. But it was now. This originally was published in the February 1967 issue of Maclean’s magazine. If they had planned it a little better they could have taken along their parkas and overshoes. I was a young college student when I first heard the story of Charlie/Chanie Wenjack in a song written and sung by Willie Dunn. We made them that way.”, The men at the counter looked at him with closed, sullen faces. He died as the white world’s rules had forced him to live—cut off from his people. #PARTOFOURHERITAGE . And it was beside a lot of water.’, On Thursday morning Kelly decided he would take his three nephews by canoe up to his trapline at Mud Lake, three miles north of Redditt. The earth and rocks are a cold brown and black. He was known to have a good sense of humour, according to the Cree Principal of the school, and was always the first to recognize a pun or riddle. They are raising awareness and funds for the Walk for Chanie Wenjack. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the death of 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack, who died on October 22, 1966 after fleeing Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in northwestern Ontario. So I let them stay. It was part of a collaborative effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Chanie's death. [1][2], On the morning of October 16, 1966, Wenjack and two school friends, orphaned brothers Ralph and Jackie MacDonald, ran away from the residential school, making it as far as Redditt, 31 km (19 mi) north of Kenora. On November 19, 2016, we set out from the former site of the Residential school and retraced the final journey of Chanie. Fifty years ago this month, 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack ran away from a residential school. The article brought the ordeal to national attention.[2]. “I showed him a good trail down to the railroad tracks. She was taking tests for a suspected case of TB. Would they run away again? Fifty years ago this month, 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack ran away from a residential school. The Anishinaabe boy ran away from a local residential school at the age of 12 in an attempt to return to his home in Marten Falls and subsequently died from hunger and exposure to the weather. Walk For Wenjack honours Chanie Wenjack and the thousands like him who never made it home. They are large 8-by-10 prints, grey and underexposed, showing the thin, crumpled little body of a 12-year-old boy with a sharp-featured face. Nobody goes into the bush without matches. He is lying on his back and his thin cotton clothing is obviously soaked. There is news today that this story is the inspiration for a new project from Gord Downie that will be released next month. It is unlikely that Charlie ever understood why he had to go to school and why it had to be such a long way from home. Sometimes they lose a leg or an arm trying to climb aboard freight trains. Eddie later broke down on the stand and had to be excused. He was walking alone along a railway track, trying to make his way home to his father 600 kilometres away in northern Ontario. He died as the white world's rules had forced him to live—cut off from his people. In 2016, Historica Canada released a Heritage Minute about the heart-breaking story of 12-year old Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack, whose death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in Canadian residential schools. We did so with the blessing and support of the Wenjack family and Grand Council Treaty #3. Charlie was 12, and Indigenous. The wind whines through the jackpines and spruce, breaking off rotten branches, which fall with sudden crashes. Kelly told Charlie he would have to walk back because there was no room in the canoe. It was a terrible mistake.”. Chanie Wenjack, 12, died from exposure and hunger. On the afternoon of Sunday, October 16, when Charlie had only another week to live, he was playing on the Cecilia Jeffrey grounds with his two friends, Ralph and Jackie MacDonald. The boys were heading for Redditt, a desolate railroad stop on the CNR line, 20 miles north of Kenora and 30 miles east of the Manitoba border. He was walking alone along a railway track, trying to make his way home to his father 600 kilometres away in northern Ontario. He has lived in them since he was a child, and taught in them. All they got out of his pockets was a little glass jar with a screw top. He died as the white world’s rules had forced him to live—cut off from his people. “I work for the highways department . But there was nothing stupid about Charlie. Chanie attended the school for two years and ran away on Oct 16, 1966. The kid behind the counter suddenly turned whitefaced and angry, “No, we did,” he said. These poems later became the lyrics to the Juno award-winning album, Secret Path. Two years after his death, Gord Downie’s memorable concert performance of his Secret Path album, was recreated by performers in Toronto Saturday night. The village he came from, Ogoki Post on the Martin Falls reservation, didn’t have a day school. Once there, he was given the name 'Charlie'. [9], Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School, Canadian Indian Residential School System, Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, (Canada), "Wenjack & Downie Families Join Trent University to Celebrate Opening of Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies", "Downie-Wenjack fund receives $5M in 2018 federal budget", "New Heritage Minute explores dark history of Indian residential schools", "The flight of Chanie Wenjack, the boy who inspired Gord Downie's new album", "Gord Downie to release solo album, graphic novel next month", "How Chanie Wenjack chose Joseph Boyden - Macleans.ca", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chanie_Wenjack&oldid=994961066, All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 December 2020, at 13:08. That’s the position they found him in. They were all dry. All Charlie had was a cotton windbreaker. Chanie Wenjack. Bruises indicated that he fell several times. He was an Indian. He was taken the the Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School, run by the Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of Canada and funded by the federal government, at the age of nine. “He was always looking at this map,” said Mrs. Kelly, “and you couldn’t get nothing out of him. Read more. Charlie played outside for a while, then he came in and told Mrs. Kelly he was leaving and he asked for some matches. A young well-dressed Indian girl came in and, with a masklike face, walked around the woman on the floor. 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. Evidence given at the inquest into his death showed that he had made his way another 20 km (12 mi) east along the CN mainline. “It was too dangerous for five in the canoe.” said Kelly, “so I told the stranger he would have to stay behind.”. He must have stumbled along the tracks at a painfully slow pace — in the end he had covered only a little more than 12 miles. In 1967, a Maclean’s cover story told the tragic tale of Chanie Wenjack, an Indigenous boy who died after running away from his residential school in northern Ontario. "Wenjack" is a short novel by Joseph Boyden (winner of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize) the tells the story of Chanie Wenjack (a native Canadian) who at the age of 13 died of hunger after fleeing the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School at age 13 in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. The story being taught to Canadian children is littered with factual distortions and untruths. through the stumbling testimony of the boys, and in the bewildered silences behind those soft one-word answers, the full horror began to come out. The first Walk for Wenjack took place in 2016 and retraced the steps of Chanie Wenjack. The story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack, whose death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in Canadian residential schools. [1][2], Wenjack had only a light windbreaker and walked for 36 hours in the wind as the temperature dropped to −6 °C (21 °F). In the morning there was only more tea. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack (19 Jan 1954–23 Oct 1966), Find a Grave Memorial no. It is a book that will change your life forever. “I just work here part-time,” he said. He attended Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario. So it must have been with a defiant attempt to assert his own trail existence that he would take out his map and show it to his friend Eddie Cameron, and together they would try to make sense out of it. Somewhere along the track he lost his map or threw it away. He carried an enormous, livid scar that ran in a loop from high on his right chest, down and up over his back. It has been a true honour and a privilege to learn from and collaborate with the guest speakers who have shared their stories and ideas with Windsor students for this project. [4], In 2016, the Gord Downie-Chanie Wenjack Fund was established to help with reconciliation between Canada and its indigenous peoples. The postmortem that was later performed on Charlie by Dr. Peter Pan. It was a show in which a dying man acted out the dying moments of a child who froze to death, alone. He died while trying to walk 600 km back home. Anong Beam. Colin Wasacase, the principal, went along with them, too. (Chanie Wenjack was called “Charlie” at his inquest and subsequent tellings of his story until the last few years; it was what he was called at residential school. The Feburary 1967 Maclean's article "The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack" Reading that Maclean’s story now, the most unsettling fact is just how familiar it seems. Click here to view this article in the Maclean’s archive. But Charlie didn’t ask anyone for anything. They went to the house of a white man the MacDonald brothers knew as “Mister Benson.” Benson took the exhausted boys in, gave them something to eat, and let them sleep that night on the floor. Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) First Nations boy who ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School where he boarded for three years while attending residential school in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. He became lonely and ran away. Charlie replied that he was leaving to go home to his father. The Kellys gave him some food and matches and suggested that he ask for help from the section maintenance crews stationed along the line. The Kellys also had two teenage daughters to feed and Kelly, who survives on a marginal income from welfare and trapping, probably began to wonder exactly what his responsibility to Charlie was. It was on the last part of this walk, probably by the tracks, that Charlie picked up a CNR schedule with a route map in it. It is the exact spot where on the night of October 22 Charlie collapsed and died from exposure and hunger . When Eddie Cameron began to cry on the stand, the jury foreman, J. R. Robinson, said later, “I wanted to go and put my arms around that little boy and hold him, and tell him not to cry.”. And then at some point on Saturday night, Charlie fell backward in a faint and never got up again. He knows what Indian residential schools are all about. Secret Path Week is a national week to remember the death of Chanie Wenjack, a young Anishinaabe boy who died trying to run away from residential school and reunite with his parents. (That same day nine other children ran away. And though he stayed alive for the next 36 hours, nobody saw him alive again. That might have saved Charlie’s life. Charlie had more than half of northern Ontario to cross. St. Joseph Communications uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes. The school was run by the Women’s Society of the Presbyterian Church. In the three years he had been at the school Charlie had never run away. At 11:20 a.m. on Sunday, October 23, engineer Elwood Mclvor was bringing a freight train west through the rock cut near Farlane, 12 1/2 miles east of Redditt. There were two housewives, a railroad worker, a service-station operator, and Robinson, who is a teacher at the Beaverbrae School in Kenora. “I never seen him again,” said Clara Kelly. Even before Charlie ran away he was already running hard just to keep pace with the bewildering white world he had suddenly been thrust into. Jackie, only 11, often played hooky. His feet, encased in ankle-high leather boots, are oddly turned inward. Charlie arrived at the Cecilia Jeffrey School, which is run by the Presbyterian Church and paid for by the federal government, in the fall of 1963. It meant that in early childhood his chest had been opened. Fifty years after Chanie Wenjack's tragic death while running away from residential school, his sister says it's time every First Nation had its own school. .I guess I’ll have to learn to keep my mouth shut. One person found this helpful. Gord Downie had explained that this story is the inspiration for his Secret Path project. Inside were half a dozen wooden matches. The benefit concert is a recreation of the 2016 multimedia performance by the Tragically Hip lead singer on the story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old Ojibwe boy who died while escaping a residential school in 1966. But as the days passed Charlie got the message. Twitter . “Do you think it was because he wanted to see his parents?”, Before the boys were questioned, the constable in charge of the investigation, Gerald Lucas, had given the jury a matter-of-fact account of finding Charlie’s body. At the time, 150 students lived at the school. There are five police pictures of Charlie, though. In 1973, indigenous students at Trent University lobbied for a building to be named after Wenjack. Two years after his death, Gord Downie’s memorable concert performance of his Secret Path album, was recreated by performers in Toronto Saturday night. I didn’t know what to do. Top. ... Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City, which won the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction and the 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. IAN ADAMS February 1 1967 Right there on the playground the three boys decided to run away. Ralph, 13, was always running away —three times since school had started last fall. by ahnationtalk on September 20, 2016 2095 Views. Fifty years after Chanie Wenjack's tragic death while running away from residential school, his sister says it's time every First Nation had its own school. When the lights went down, the darkness felt overwhelming. “The thing we remember most about him was his sense of humor. Chanie was born in 1954 and grew up in Ogoki Post on the Marten Falls Reserve in northern Ontario. . The coroner, Dr. R. G. Davidson, a thin-lipped and testy man, mumbled his own evidence when he read the pathologist’s report, then kept telling the boys who ran away with Charlie to speak up when answering the Crown attorney’s questions. Early the next morning the boys walked another half mile to the cabin of Charles Kells. Chanie (misnamed Charlie by his teachers) was a 12-year-old Anishinaabe boy who, along with two other classmates, ran away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario in October 1966. No, it was the higher-ups, the government,” replied the man. The church services were over, and the congregations from Knox United Church and the First Presbyterian Church, which face each other at Second Street and Fifth Avenue, were spilling out onto the sidewalks. Chanie 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 walk home. Wasacase, in his early 30s, is a Cree from Broadview, Sask. Nobody will know whether Charlie changed his mind about leaving or whether he wanted to see his friends one last time, but instead of striking out east along the railroad tracks, he walked north to Mud Lake, arriving at the cabin by the trapline before Kelly and his nephews got there in the canoe. It also shows the resolve of a young boy to return to the normalcy of his home and family life. And that’s all he had. He was at one such school at the age of six when he broke his left arm. They won’t stay at the school. That means he was a slow learner and had to be given special instruction in English and arithmetic. After hearing about Chanie Wenjack’s life and death, Gord Downie began a personal project to tell the story of Chanie and share it with other Canadians. For the 75 girls and 75 boys there are only six supervisors. People similar to or like Chanie Wenjack. THE LONELY DEATH OF CHARLIE WENJACK Charlie was 12. But in reality the map would be never more than a symbol, because Charlie didn’t know enough English to read it. Davidson let Burton deal with the boys after that. The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack. There were no Indians on the jury. We did so with the blessing and support of the Wenjack family and Grand Council Treaty #3. 821. They are raising awareness and funds for the Walk for Chanie Wenjack. Animation on the screen above the band showed Chanie’s terrifying experience at … Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack’s short life ended after he ran away from residential school in 1966. Today marks the 54th anniversary of the tragic death of Chanie Wenjack, an Anishinaabe boy, who at the tender age of 12, ran away from the PCC-run Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School to return home, only to be found dead by hunger and exposure to harsh weather.
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