The everyday experiences of a north coast Japanese-Canadian fisherman, at home and in the workplace
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For many years before World War II, the Japanese workmen at North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward, BC, were subject to what was believed to be racial discrimination based on unfair economic competitiveness. By focusing on different aspects of the lives of Japanese workmen at NPC, this historical narrative aims to fill some of the gaps still existent in Japanese-‐Canadian history. The essential experience and direction that was transferred from Japanese fishermen to the fishing industry was unmatched yet with it came little respect and acknowledgment rooted in social, political, and economic reasons. Some scholars have emphasized the roots of Canadian discrimination against the Japanese were sewn out of the Japanese’s’ own economic competitiveness in a place that was then referred to as a ‘white man’s province’. This argument is misleading and, after undertaking archival and oral history research, it has since shown that what first began as anger towards Japanese immigrants born of economic aggression very quickly shifted towards hostility entirely based on racial prejudice.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".