Bruce County is getting involved with Walking for Wenjack with a series of events taking place across the region.
Starting in 2016, the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund had challenged people across Canada to do something meaningful.
Bruce County is holding the walk in Neyaashiinigmiing, Wiarton and Southampton with the events offering the community to come together to walk, learn and reflect on the more than 600 kilometers Chanie Wenjack needed to get home.
In 1966, Chanie Wenjack ran away from a residential school in Kenora, walking 36 hours before dying of exposure on October 22nd at just 12 years old.
His death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in the residential school system.
The first walk will held on August 15th at 1pm at Cape Croker Park.
