Secret Path

Secret Path
Studio album by Gord Downie
Released	October 18, 2016
Recorded	November 3–10, 2013 November 27–December 2, 2013
Studio	The Bathouse Recording Studio, Bath, ON, Canada,
Length	41:10
Label	Arts & Crafts Productions
Producer	Kevin Drew, Dave Hamelin
Gord Downie chronology
And the Conquering Sun (2014) Secret Path (2016) Introduce Yerself (2017)
secretpath.ca

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.^[3]

The album Secret Path was the fifth studio album by Gord Downie and the final album released during his lifetime. The album was accompanied by a graphic novel of the same name, written by Downie, illustrated by Jeff Lemire, and published by Simon & Schuster;^[2] as well as an animated television film aired on CBC Television on October 23, 2016.^[4] All proceeds from the album and book are being donated to the University of Manitoba's National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.^[3]

Downie performed the album in a concert at Roy Thomson Hall on October 21, 2016, which was his last 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. The project was further followed in 2018 by Finding the Secret Path, a documentary film by Downie's brother Mike Downie about the creation of the original project.^[5]