During the 1800’s, the Canadian government ruled that 150,000 native aboriginal children must leave their homes and families to attend Christian boarding schools where they would be brought into the language, traditions, and norms of Canadian society. The story actually goes back much farther. All three of his upcoming releases are based on the story of a young First Nation boy, Chanie Wenjack, who died after running away from a state-mandated Christian boarding school in 1966. The group just finished a cross-Canada tour ending with their final concert just a couple of weeks ago and, on Friday, he announced a trio of new projects. Earlier this year when Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie announced that he was suffering from terminal brain cancer, nobody thought that there would be such a creative outpouring in the offering.
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