Secret Path is a Canadian multimedia storytelling project including a ten-song music album, a graphic novel, an animated television film, and instructional materials.
[1] Released on October 18, 2016,[2] the centrepiece of the project is a concept album about Chanie Wenjack, a young Anishinaabe boy from the Marten Falls First Nation who died in 1966 while trying to return home after escaping from an Indian residential school.
Additional personnel: Downie performed the album in a concert at Roy Thomson Hall on October 21, 2016, attended by members of the Wenjack family.
Downie and his collaborators performed the album, again with members of the Wenjack family, in Halifax's Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on November 29, 2016.
[7] The graphic novel, also titled Secret Path, was written by Gord Downie, illustrated by Jeff Lemire, and published by Simon & Schuster.
[9] In an opinion piece in the National Post, Peter Shawn Taylor has criticized the story for containing fictionalized elements.