"No one worked harder on every part of their life than Gord. No one," Gord Downie's family said in a statement announcing his death Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, Writer and Reporter at PEOPLE.

When I woke up to see the news that Gord Downie had passed, it hit me like a bag of bricks. We all knew it was coming, but I don't think anybody was quite ready for it. Downie was a living ...

Instead, it was the way frontman Gord Downie was in some ways a historian as much as a rock star. The singer and lyricist was fascinated by the decidedly Canadian stories of figures like doomed ...

Gord Downie, lead singer and lyricist of the Tragically Hip, has died after a battle with brain cancer. He was Canada's unofficial poet laureate. CBC News offers an interactive road trip of the ...