by Danforth Guy
Virtual Stamp Club Special Contributor

The third annual installment of the Indigenous Leaders series will be issued on June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day. As with the previous issues, this one comprises three stamps at the ‘P’ rate (which will be 99¢). Each will come in its own booklet of 6 self-adhesives.

We have deduced two of the three subjects of this issue:

• Josephine Mandamin, who walked some 25,000 miles around the shores of each of the Great Lakes carrying a bucket of water to promote unpolluted waters. First day issue location: Wikwemikong, ON
• Elisape Isaac, an Inuk musician, filmmaker, and activist who spent her childhood in Salluit, in the far north of Quebec, which is the first day location for the stamp.

Photo: a proposal to put Josephine Mandamin on the $20 bill is part of the Change the Bill campaign to honour a historic Canadian instead of the British monarch on our most-used banknote — a place no Canadian has ever appeared!

Earlier Indigenous Peoples issues:

• 2023: Nellie Cournoyea, George Manuel and Thelma Chalifoux
• 2022: Harry Daniels, Chief Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier and Jose Kusugak

Additional information on this issue will appear below the line, with the most recent at the top.