While Oct. 22 in Sudbury was bright and sunny, if a bit cool, it was a far cry from what young Chanie Wenjack experienced over his final few days of life in 1966.
The event saw participants walk along the Jim Gordon boardwalk in Wenjack’s memory, and in the memory of all those who lived through a residential school experience, while stopping periodically so Jason Marcon, the head of the historical group, shared pieces of local Indigenous history. Charles “Chanie” Wenjack’s story is tragic. As related by Trent University, he was a young Anishinaabe boy from Ogoki Post in Marten Falls who was sent to the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora in 1963 at age nine.
Wenjack’s body was found beside the railway tracks north of Kenora on Oct. 22, a week after he fled.
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