Downie, right, examines a guitar while meeting with Pearl, centre, and her sister, facing away from the camera, wearing the white jacket in this Sept. 8. handout photo. Downie visited the northern Ontario First Nation to commemorate a new solo project based on the story of 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack, who died in 1966 after running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School, near Kenora, Ontario.
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