“It is exceptionally powerful to see one of Canada’s most well-known and well-loved performers lend his voice to the struggle for truth and reconciliation.
His music is as Canadian as anything I can think of,” Ry wrote. Gord’s music is as much fused into my world as is air or water it’s what I drank in to keep going, what I breathed when I needed it. “Gord is an icon for me someone I grew up not just listening too, but living life to. It was a powerful moment, Moran recalled in a Globe and Mail editorial. Gathered in the home of Wenjack’s sister, Pearl, Downie played the first track off the album. They were visiting Chanie Wenjack’s family, the boy whose story is told in Secret Path. PHOTO: GRAND CHIEF ALVIN FIDDLERĪround this time, Ry Moran, director of the NCTR, met Downie at Ogoki Post, Ont., a small fly-in community located in northwestern Ontario. Downie wrote in a statement at the time.ĮVELYN BAXTER, CHANIE WENJACK’S SISTER, WITH GORD DOWNIE OUTSIDE HER HOME IN OGOKI POST, ONT. “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,” Mr. Proceeds from the Juno-winning project have supported the work of the NCTR, something close to Downie’s heart. It was a privilege to be able to partner with him, and we will remain focused on our shared goals through the work we do at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, as well as throughout our institution.”ĭownie and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba entered a unique relationship in September 2016 when Downie released his multimedia project Secret Path. He showed immeasurable courage in his last days, taking the spotlight off himself and turning it onto this nation’s unjust treatment of Indigenous peoples. “Because of Gord Downie, we have that brilliant music and poetry, which provide us with an exhilarating reflection of our collective memories and dreams, and we also have a broadened conversation about who we are and who we want to be as Canadians. “Our nation has lost a great artist and an exemplary citizen,” says David Barnard, President at the University of Manitoba. Gord Downie, Tragically Hip front man, has died but his legacy of creating a better path forward for Canada lives on through the work of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba.
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