Montreal and Its Environs: Imagining a National Landscape, c. 1867-1885
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Historians of nationalism have demonstrated that national identity is as much a cultural as an ideological construct. Like other identities (class, gender, race), national identity has to be imagined, performed, and witnessed if it is to achieve widespread recognition and produce a common consciousness. Participating in indigenous activities such as snowshoeing and tobogganing, and turning them into organized sports, allowed urban anglophone colonists in Victorian Montreal to invent for themselves a new Canadian identity. On their tramps over Mount Royal and into the countryside outside the city, they envisaged themselves as latter-day Nor’Westers setting out into the wilderness—an indigenizing experience that linked them to the national landscape and the historic pasts (both Native and French-Canadian) of the new Dominion, and allowed them to imagine themselves as “sons of the soil,” a new British type of native Canadian. This essay explores the role played by the landscape of the city of Montreal and its rural environs in this cultural performance.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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".