NEWFOUNDLAND

 NEWFOUNDLAND.

Definitive stamps.
Map of Newfoundland.
Stamp issued on 03.01.1928.
Face value: 1 cent.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 24.5 x 31 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 129.
- Scott No. 145.
- StampWorld No. 137.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 164.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 131.

The island of Newfoundland (in French, Terre-Neuve; in Miꞌkmaq, Taqamkuk) is located in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North America, and was inhabited by Paleo-arctic tribes. The first historical data on the island indicate that it was visited by the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson in the 11th century, who called it Vinland. Later, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English fishermen and whalers came to its shores. After the settlement of the first Europeans, English, Irish, Scots and French, the colonists named the island Terra Nova, a name given to it by the Portuguese. On August 5, 1583, Humphrey Gilbert claimed the island as an overseas colony of England: Newfoundland is considered the oldest colony in Great Britain. It was administratively organized as a colony in 1825, was autonomous from 1855 to 1934, and maintained Dominion status (which included the island of Newfoundland and a part of Labrador Peninsula, see the map on the stamp) from 1907 to 1949. Between June and July 1948, a 52.3% of the population of the colony voted  in favor of joining Canada as a province. The union officially became effective one minute before midnight on March 31, 1949.