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Inuk singer and filmmaker Elisapie is one of three women being honoured by Canada Post as part of their Indigenous Leaders stamp series.

Leeor Wild

Elisapie Isaac spent much of her childhood at the post office in Salluit, a tiny Inuit community in northern Quebec, nearly 2,000 kilometres north of Montreal.

Every day after school, instead of playing with her friends, she visited her dad at the co-op, where he was a stock boy. Her older cousin, Alaku, worked at the nearby post office, where Elisapie mingled with the other locals waiting for their welfare checks or income tax returns.

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Elisapie’s cousins and aunt often hung out at the post office in Salluit. From left to right: Annie Naluiyuk, Alasie Naluiyuk, Alaku Papigatuk Abraham Susie Naluiyuk.

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Canada Post has recognized the Elisapie’s cultural contribution with a stamp that features a portriat of the …

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