NEWFOUNDLAND

NEWFOUNDLAND.

Landscapes.
Humber River Canyon.
Ninth stamp in a set of 14, issued on 08.07.1923.
Face value: 10 Newfoundland cents.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 21 x 25 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 122.
- Scott No. 139.
- StampWorld No. 130.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 157.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 125.

The Humber is a river located on the Newfoundland Island, in the current Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is approximately 121 km (75.18 mi) long; it flows through the Long Range Mountains, southeast then southwest, through Deer Lake, to the Bay of Islands. It begins near the town of Hampden. James Cook first chartered the Humber in the summer of 1767. It was named for its English counterpart the Humber estuary, on the east coast of England. The Humber is rich in Atlantic salmon, and was from the 1800s used as a waterway for European trappers and loggers.