The War on the Squatters, 1920-1940: Hamilton's Boathouse Community and the Re-Creation of Recreation on Burlington Bay
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Abstract
Working-class Hamiltonians responded to a local housing crisis by creating a boathouse community along the shoreline of Burlington Bay and Dundas Marsh. Leasing or simply squatting the land, they enjoyed access to good fishing and hunting, a clean place to live, and seclusion from the gaze of local police. The notorious reputation of a nearby hotel, the presence of transients in the area, and rough elements of working-class recreation, however, made the community a prime target for urban reformers. They saw it as an unsightly problem, standing in the way of their plans to create an aesthetically-pleasing, moral, and orderly city. The war on the shows the ways in which urban planners, conservationists, and moral reformers sought to reshape the human and natural environment of the bay, often at the expense of working people. Residents who had enjoyed resource and recreational advantages of living on the margins of Hamilton society paid the price politically when reformers contested their use of the area's natural resources. Although they won limited sympathy, they did not have the economic, legal, or political resources to fight those who saw their community as an aesthetic and moral blot on Hamilton's waterfront. Resume Les hamiltoniens de la classe ouvriere ont repondu a une crise du logement local en creant une communaute de remise a bateaux le long du rivage de la baie Burlington et du marais Dundas. Louer ou simplement squatter sur le terrain, ils se regalaient d'avoir acces a la peche et a la chasse, d'avoir un endroit propre a habiter et d'etre isoles du regard meprisant de la police locale. Le fait notoire d'un hotel a proximite immediate, la presence des gens de passage dans la region, ainsi que les elements bruts de la creation de la classe ouvriere, ont, toutefois, fait de la communaute une cible de choix pour les reformateurs urbains. Ces derniers la voyaient comme un probleme esthetique, un obstacle a leurs plans de creer une ville plaisante, morale et bien rangee. La « guerre sur les squatters » indique la facon dont les planificateurs urbains, les conservationnistes, et les reformateurs moralistes ont cherche a reorganiser l'environnement humain et naturel de la baie, souvent au detriment des travailleuses et travailleurs. Les residents qui ont beneficie des ressources et de la recreation en vivant sur les marges de la societe de Hamilton ont paye le prix politiquement quand les reformateurs ont conteste leur utilisation des ressources naturelles de la region. Bien qu'ils aient gagne un peu de sympathie, ils n'avaient pas les ressources economiques, juridiques ou politiques pour se battre contre ceux qui voyaient leur communaute comme un coin inesthetique et immoral sur les bords de l'eau a Hamilton.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".