Charles J. Humber was born in St. Lambert, Quebec, July 14, 1936. A graduate of Temple University, B.A. (1962), and the University of Wisconsin, M.A.(1970), Humber also attended the University of Alaska (Fairbanks Campus, 1960-1961). He also was fortunate to study under Prof. H. Northrop Frye, a world- famous literary scholar at the University of Toronto (1969-1970). Humber and his wife, Gayle Jenkins, a native Californian, are the proud parents of two daughters, Kristan and Karyn, and twin sons, Charlie and Scott. Following a twenty-year career as a high school teacher, Humber entered the publishing world when he edited LOYAL SHE REMAINS, a best seller launched to coincide with the 1984 Ontario Bicentennial celebrations. At the time he was the National President of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada. In 1986, Humber co-founded Heirloom Publishing Inc. which produced the nationally acclaimed, seven volume CANADA Heirloom Series (1986-2001). In semi-retirement, Humber has continued to publish books, including FAMILY SLEUTHING (2006) and Dad's Best Memories (2016), two volumes that trace, among other matters, his family's links to the American Revolution. CIGAR BOX LITHOGRAPHS, Volume I (2018), unquestionably reveals Mr. Humber's passion for collecting vintage cigar boxes and has led him to revisit the world of cigar boxes with his supplementary CIGAR BOX LITHOGRAPHS, Volume II, another jammed packed production filled with dramatic and historic images. Both volumes I and II are destined to be highly collectible books pursuing forgotten history. Both are much like portrait galleries accompanied with historic vignettes that truly uncover the past and peer at the inside lids of these cigar boxes that have been relegated to the bone-piles of time.
