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“Yeah,” he said, “to the point where it would be like, ‘Jesus, is that guy not dead yet?’ Canadians can be funny. “So we could hear more from the Hip?” he was asked. He said that both he and the Hip were still working on new material and had some in the can. Downie expressed frustration with not being able to remember names and lyrics because of his illness, but he also showed that he could joke about it. Downie is survived by his wife, Laura Leigh Usher, from whom he was separated four children his mother two brothers and two sisters. And, since last year, his causes had included the one that affected him personally: The Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research was established at the time he announced his diagnosis.

Downie championed, through work with organizations like Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, on whose board he served.

We are not the country we thought we were.”Įnvironmentalism was another cause Mr. “His story is Canada’s story,” he said of the boy, Chanie Wenjack. Downie was concerned about his country’s reluctance to deal with its past and its treatment of its indigenous peoples. Downie and Jeff Lemire, and an animated film - based on the true story of an indigenous boy who died of exposure after running away from a residential school in northern Ontario and trying to make his way 400 miles back to his home. In the final year of his life, he released a solo album and graphic novel titled The Secret Path, inspired by the true story of an indigenous boy who died while trying to escape a.

Their first studio album, Up to Here, arrived in 1989. Downie’s most recent efforts was “Secret Path,” a multimedia project - including an album, a graphic novel by Mr. Downie was a founding member of the Tragically Hip, which he formed in 1984 with Gord Sinclair and Rob Baker. Downie’s lyrics, he wrote, “are about endless varieties of disillusionment.”Īmong Mr. Reviewing a 1998 New York performance by the Tragically Hip, Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that the group “harks back to 1960s rock, building songs on guitar riffs that look back to the Rolling Stones, the Byrds, Neil Young and the blues.” Mr. Gord Downies Coke Machine Glow was released in 2001, in between Music Work (2000) and In Violet Light (2002), the ninth and tenth albums by his mighty.