Magog’s Church of Sainte-Marguerite-Marie and the Architectural Dynamics Between Two of Québec’s Founding Institutions During the Twentieth Century: The Roman Catholic Church and the Corporate Industrial Manufactory
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This case study conducts a spatial and visual analysis of Magog’s church of Sainte-Marguerite-Marie, located in the Eastern Townships of Québec, based on the plans designed by Sherbrooke architect Joseph Aimé Poulin between 1946 and 1949. The working class community’s social history will be considered in terms of the factory workers’ collective commitment to build a rare and exceptional church in the shadow of the Dominion Textile Company’s imposing factory. The intent is to illustrate how the relative monumentality of the church and its streamlined design respond to the factory both directly and indirectly. The building is not only a product of the architect’s creative vision and technical logic and skill; his clients’, the factory workers’, expectations and motivations merit significant consideration as well. The professional climate of religious architecture during the period also deserves attention, as does the environment within which the building was inserted, and how that building responded to its existing surrounding urban landscape. Finally, this essay presents the church’s architecture as a rather extra-ordinary example of the modern design influence inserted into an otherwise marginalized neighbourhood historically rooted in traditional values, practices and beliefs, positioned at the crossroads between the textile industry and the Roman Catholic Church.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".