Bibliographic record
Abstract
What we know of the manufactured textiles that were usually the largest single category in colonial imports relates mainly to elite families and special occasions. This paper uses ten samples of the accounts of ordinary families, principally farmers and artisans, at seven Upper Canadian village stores (the earliest in 1808-9, the latest in 1861). Almost 600 of the 787 sample members made at least one purchase of textiles or a related product. From their accounts, 53 fabrics, 36 readymade products, and 38 other products are selected. Cottons dominated from the beginning, and purchases of luxuries, such as silk, were rare. The basic patterns confirm for Upper Canada what textile historians have found, using estate inventories, in other colonial contexts. However, they challenge the story, which underlies most specialist and general accounts of Upper Canada, that there was a transition in this period from self-sufficiency to market engagement. Resume Ce que nous connaissons des textiles manufactures, habituellement la plus grande categorie d'importations coloniales, se rapporte surtout aux familles de l'elite et aux occasions speciales. Cet article examine dix echantillons d'etats de compte de familles ordinaires, principalement de fermiers et d'artisans, dans sept magasins de villages du Haut-Canada (le plus ancien remontant a 1808-1809, le plus recent a 1861). Pres de 600 des 787 membres de l'echantillonnage ont achete au moins un article textile ou produit connexe. Dans les etats de compte, 53 etoffes, 36 vetements de confection et 38 autres produits ont ete selectionnes. Des le debut, les cotonnades etaient ce qui se vendait le plus et les achats de produits de luxe, comme la soie, etaient rares. Les tendances fondamentales confirment pour le Haut-Canada ce que les historiens du textile ont decouvert dans d'autres contextes coloniaux en consultant des inventaires de successions. Elles mettent cependant en doute la croyance repandue dans les recits generaux et les ecrits de specialistes sur le Haut-Canada, selon laquelle cette epoque en etait une de transition de 1'autosuffisance a l'economie de marche.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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".