Food Mail Program

The Food Mail Program is a combined effort of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC), Canada Post and Health Canada. It provides nutritious perishable food and other essential items to isolated northern communities at reduced postal rates.  These items are provided to over 70,000 people in 80 communities across the North every week.  More than 18 million kilograms of food mail are shipped annually under the program and this amount is increasing as Northern communities grow and thrive. In addition, the Food Mail Program conducts regular surveys to measure nutrition and food costs in remote Canadian communities serviced primarily by air transportation.

Nutrition North Canada

On May 21, 2010, the Government of Canada announced a new program called Nutrition North Canada to replace the Food Mail Program effective April 1, 2011. The objective of the new program is to make nutritious, perishable foods accessible to Canadians living in isolated northern communities. Visit the Nutrition North Canada website  .

What Information is Available?

• Food Mail Program Network Map
• Destinations and Entry Points
• Postage Rates
• Shipments to Businesses and Government Agencies
• Funding
• Eligible and Ineligible Goods
• News Releases

You may also be interested in:

• Information Sheet
• Food Costs
• Food Mail Program Review

Contact Us

For more information about the Food Mail Program.

Food Mail Program Coordinator
Phone: (819) 994-4810
Fax: (819) 953-9309
E-mail: foodmail@aadnc-aandc.gc.ca