The Invisible Island: Immigration, Environment, and a New Europe on Big Island, Nova Scotia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines Scottish immigration to Nova Scotia from an environmental perspective.Big Island, which has been long absent from the historical record, is a microcosm of Alfred Crosby's New Europe thesis.The environmental historian's seminal theory has never been applied to the Scottish immigration story, in Canada or abroad, and applying it to Big Island reveals a strong cultural and geographic enclave that serves as a testament to the enduring power of place. 1 See, for example, Eric Ross, Pictou Island, Nova Scotia: The Rise and Fall of an Island Community (Victoria, BC: Morriss Printing, 1987). 2 Likely most of the Scottish emigrants who settled on Big Island were Presbyterian.The Nova Scotia Archives holds microfilm records for baptisms, burials, and marriages from Saint Paul's Presbyterian Church in Merigomish Aileen Leigh Stanton and David Freeland Duke, "The Invisible Island: Immigration, Environment, and a New Europe on Big Island, Nova Scotia," Acadiensis 48, no.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".