Humber, Charles Joseph

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    • Charles Joseph Humber was born in 1936 in Saint Lambert Quebec.
    • Charles J. Humber graduated, 1950, from the oldest public school in North America, Boston’s Mather School. After graduating from High School, travelled to Philadelphia and graduated with a B.A. degree from Temple University, 1962. He earned his M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1970, majoring in English Literature. Studied under Northrop Frye at the University of Toronto in 1967-68. He spent one full year attending the University of Alaska (Fairbanks), 1960-61, where he met his future wife, Gayle Jenkins, from La Jolla, California. Together they raised four children and have lived in the general Toronto area, off and on, since 1962.
    • Twenty years of teaching high school English ended when he co-founded Heirloom Publishing Inc. in 1985. This all-Canadian publication house produced the seven-volume, nationally acclaimed CANADA Heirloom Series until 2001. Since his retirement, Mr. Humber published, in 2006, Family Sleuthing, a 440-page tome tracing his United Empire Loyalist roots through both his mother’s and father’s side of the family.
    • President of Humber Charles Humber Consulting.
    • Dominion President of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada 1982 to 1984, member of the Monarchist League of Canada.
    • Twenty Books written include Family Sleuthing; Chasing sunsets and falling leaves 2006, Wrote the Forword to Loyalist Mosaic: A Multi Cultural Heritage 1984, co-editor and contributor to Loyal She Remains: A pictorial history of Ontario 1984, Canada from Sea to Sea 1986, Canada’s Natives People 1988, and Allegiance: the Ontario Story 1991.
    • On behalf of the Ontario Government, presented Loyal She Remains to Queen Elizabeth II when Her Majesty visited Ontario in 1984. At the time, was serving as National President of the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada and was also the co-editor and one of two dozen authors of Loyal She Remains, a publication essentially acclaiming Ontario’s cultural history.
  • Fourth Great Grandson to United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=114