To Represent the Country in Egypt: Aboriginality, Britishness, Anglophone Canadian Identities, and the Nile Voyageur Contingent, 1884-1885
Bibliographic record
Abstract
When the British War Office requested a contingent of Aboriginal “voyageurs” from Canada to join the British government’s Nile expedition in 1884, recruitment of the contingent raised much public comment and fascination. To many anglophones, the call for voyageurs offered an opportunity to demonstrate Canadian loyalty and usefulness to the empire, and to garner national recognition. However, the role of Aboriginal boatmen in the expedition complicated such questions of national representation. Not only did the Aboriginal Nile voyageurs demonstrate their superiority as boatmen, challenging assumptions of Native inferiority, but their behaviour often contradicted the stereotypes usually applied to Indians. An important dimension of the emerging “national” identity for anglophones seems to have been the maintenance of a sharp distinction between “Canadian” and “Indian”, a distinction not always recognized by Britons. This unprecedented expedition thus provides an instructive case study in the contending and emerging narratives of cultural identity in Victorian Canada.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 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".