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    Chasing Secrets

    1999 · Drama · 1h 37m

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  1. Apr 4, 1999 · The Secret Path: Directed by Bruce Pittman. With Della Reese, Crystal Bernard, Madeline Zima, Yvonne Zima. A drama about a young, neglected white girl in the rural South who, with the help of an unlikely couple, finds the solace and nurturing needed to transform her downtrodden life.

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    • Bruce Pittman
    • Unrated
    • Della Reese, Crystal Bernard, Madeline Zima
  2. Sep 9, 2016 · Secret Path is a ten song album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by Jeff Lemire that tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, a twelve year-old boy who died fifty years ago on October 22, 1966, in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario, trying to walk over 400 miles home to the family he was taken from.

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    • Secret Path Began as 10 Poems Inspired by A 1967 Magazine Article
    • Downie Was Accompanied by Some Well-Known Friends
    • In Advance of The Release, Downie Visited Wenjack's Sister
    • Downie Wants Canadians to 'Do Something'

    Initially, Downie wrote Secret Path as 10 poems, inspired by Wenjack's story, and how he died running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ont., in October, 1966. Wenjack began walking home, not realizing his family lived more than 400 miles away. He died alone from exposure and hunger next to a CNR railroad track. D...

    All of the vocals and guitar parts were written by Downie; all other instrumentation was by Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and the Stills' Dave Hamelin. Charles Spearin and Ohad Benchetrit of BSS and Do Make Say Think, Kevin Hearn of Barenaked Ladies, and Dave "Billy Ray" Koster also performed on the album. It was recorded over two sessions at th...

    Alvin Fiddler, Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, accompanied Downie when he visited the home of Chanie's sister, Pearl Achneepineskum. "It's historic, in many ways," Fiddler saidof Downie's trip to the Northern Ontario community, and his commemoration of the young boy who had died nearly half a century before. "The money and funds are secon...

    Rather than continuing to ignore the racism, poverty and colonialism that Indigenous peoples face in Canada, Downie hopes the album will help spur more Canadians to action. "I am trying in this small way to help spread what Murray Sinclair said: 'This is not an Aboriginal problem. This is a Canadian problem. Because at the same time that Aboriginal...

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  5. The story consist of a neglected young white girl, from a family who's patriarch grandpa Foley mistreats her and tries to force her into prostitution, and into hustling soldiers for money. She resists , and find the love and affection she didn't get at home in a black childless couple , excellently played by Ossie Davis, and Della Reese.

  6. Oct 12, 2018 · Finding the Secret Path premieres Friday, Oct. 12 at 9 p.m. on CBC Television (9:30 NT), on the CBC TV streaming app and cbc.ca/watch. An encore broadcast of the documentary will air on CBC...

  7. 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.

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