Historical Places of Interest, Books, Tourism and Advertising: Scottish Icons in Contemporary Halifax (Nova Scotia)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
HALIFAX (NOVA SCOTIA)There is none more Scots than the Scots abroad.(Spirit of the West)he first attempt of a Scottish settlement in North America was a failure.After he was granted permission to colonize, Sir William Alexander officially named the new colony Nova Scotia, New Scotland, in 1621.Although the first Scottish settlement appeared in 1629, immigration for real did not start until after the Seven Years War and after the expulsion of the previous French Acadian settlers in 1759.Despite the complex colonial history of the Province, the original coat of arms showing the Scottish connection (St.Andrew's Cross and the rampant lion in the middle of the crest), granted in 1625, has been kept as a permanent symbol of the province throughout its colonial history and up until today.The aim of this article is to trace the origin and show the presence of Scottish icons in contemporary Halifax.In particular, the research focuses on the Scottish images presented to the public.The analysis of these Scottish symbols starts from the historical places of interests related to Scotland, which represent the oldest connection to the fatherland.Secondly, this discussion focuses on some of the printed sources available in Halifax, which establishes a link to either Scotland or the Scots in Nova Scotia.In particular, for the purpose of this article, the analysis focuses on the Scottish imagery presented to the readers.Thirdly, a critical analysis looks at
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".