Alexander Hunter Murray (1818 or 1819 – 20 April 1874)[1] was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and artist.
Alexander Hunter Murray was married to Anne Campbell, and they had eight children together, the eldest, Helen, being born at Fort Yukon.
He drew numerous sketches of fur trade posts and of people and wrote Journal of the Yukon, 1847–48, which give valuable insight into the culture of local First Nation people at the time.
The stamp was designed by Georges Beaupré based on a drawing by Alexander Hunter Murray (1851) in Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
The 8¢ stamps are perforated 13.5 and were printed by Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited.