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Tag: #$5 bill

Descendants swell with pride as Pitseolak Ashoona makes shortlist to appear on new $5 bill

by Derek Neary November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

The late Pitseolak Ashoona, a renowned Nunavut artist and mother to 17 children, is among eight finalists to appear on a redesign of the Canadian $5 bill, and her descendants are thrilled. “It would mean the world to me,” Pitseolak’s great-granddaughter Mary Ashoona wrote of the potential honour. “She had told my grandfather Kiugak, who […]

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