{"id":27545,"date":"2026-04-29T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=27545"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:29:38","slug":"patricia-roussel-and-david-dean-co-author-article-exploring-on-postage-stamps-and-national-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2026\/patricia-roussel-and-david-dean-co-author-article-exploring-on-postage-stamps-and-national-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Roussel and David Dean co-author article exploring on postage stamps and national identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Patricia Roussel and David Dean co-author article exploring on postage stamps and national identity\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/04\/Fig-2-Yukon-Gold-Rush-Shookum-Jim-Mason-1024x793.jpeg\" alt=\"Yukon Gold Rush\" class=\"wp-image-27546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/04\/Fig-2-Yukon-Gold-Rush-Shookum-Jim-Mason-1024x793.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/04\/Fig-2-Yukon-Gold-Rush-Shookum-Jim-Mason-512x396.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/04\/Fig-2-Yukon-Gold-Rush-Shookum-Jim-Mason-320x248.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/04\/Fig-2-Yukon-Gold-Rush-Shookum-Jim-Mason-768x595.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/04\/Fig-2-Yukon-Gold-Rush-Shookum-Jim-Mason-1536x1189.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2026\/04\/Fig-2-Yukon-Gold-Rush-Shookum-Jim-Mason-2048x1586.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Canada Post, Yukon Gold Rush, 13 June 1996, Skookum Jim Mason Staked the First Claim, 45cents multicoloured, designed by Steven Slipp, Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps (2022) catalogue #1606a, p. 320. Photo Credit: David Dean.<\/em><br>\u00a0<br>&#8212;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/patricia-roussel\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/patricia-roussel\/\">Patricia Roussel<\/a>, who is completing her MA in Public History, has co-authored an article with <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/david-dean\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/david-dean\/\">Professor David Dean<\/a> exploring the connections between postage stamps, shaping national identity through processes of commemoration. Published in <em>Active History<\/em>, the article examines how this relationship plays out in praxis with a case-study of the 1996 Canada Post-issued Klondike Gold Stamp Series. You can access the article here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Factivehistory.ca%2Fblog%2F2026%2F02%2F19%2Fcanada-post-commemorative-stamps-and-the-klondike%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CMichelleCoutts%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C136b8633e0b8426145e908dea6015c04%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C639130722090912767%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=aYqQhfsRRdBniXHNsDUUeBuU1fRkalVRD77EEf3GCL0%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/activehistory.ca\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/canada-post-commemorative-stamps-and-the-klondike\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on the Philately in Troubled Times project see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ccph\/2025\/philately-in-troubled-times-a-citizen-science-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ccph\/2025\/philately-in-troubled-times-a-citizen-science-project\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Roussel, who is completing her MA in Public History, has co-authored an article with Professor David Dean exploring the connections between postage stamps, shaping national identity through processes of commemoration. Published in Active History, the article examines how this relationship plays out in praxis with a case-study of the 1996 Canada Post-issued Klondike Gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":27546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27547,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545\/revisions\/27547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}