Appropriating the Past: Pageants, Politics, and the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation
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Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between public commemoration and the construction of social and political identity in the period between the wars, through a case study of the historical pageants that played such a conspicuous part in the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation in 1927. Nationalist elites in Ottawa attempted to exploit pageantry for nation-building purposes by disseminating selective images of the past, conforming to the officially approved themes of material progress, social harmony and political unity. At the local level, historical pageants were used to define and celebrate the community's links to the past, present and future, the contribution of different social groups to its development, and its relationship to the larger nation. By organizing and participating in the pageants and other civic rituals of the Jubilee year through their networks of voluntary associations, middle-class women consolidated their public role as guardians of collective memory and historical tradition. And for a number of important groups-French-Canadian nationalists, British-Canadian imperialists, European immigrants and Native people, among others-a commemorative occasion intended to generate a common national consciousness ironically provided opportunities to affirm and celebrate competing sources of group loyalty and identity, through the use of historical representations that subverted the aims of federal organisers.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.034 | 0.041 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".