Secret Path by Gordon Downie

Secret Path is a Canadian multimedia art project including a music album and tour, a graphic novel, and a television film. The centrepiece is Secret Path, the fifth studio album by Gord Downie and the final album released during his lifetime. Released on October 18, 2016, 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. All proceeds from the album and book are being donated to the University of Manitoba's National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation project.The album was accompanied by a graphic novel of the same name, written by Downie and illustrated by Jeff Lemire, as well as an animated television film aired on CBC Television on October 23, 2016. Downie performed the album in a concert at Roy Thomson Hall on October 21, 2016, which was his last-ever full concert performance in his lifetime and was attended by members of the Wenjack family. The concert was aired by CBC Television in October 2017 following Downie's death.