Company towns in Canada. An urban heritage offering a structuring role for 21st century society
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
While company towns have been studied widely at international level, those located in Canada are not widely known. The companies involved were single industry firms and the company towns that they built were carefully planned with a view not only to accommodating employees but also to offer them all useful infrastructure needed for daily life. This included social, political economic domains as well as leisure activities. This article revisits this definition and its scope in comparison with other closely-related typologies. Two cases are studied in depth to highlight the specific characteristics of Canadian company towns : Powell River in British Columbia, built from 1908, and Arvida in Quebec, built from 1926. It concludes with a review of the current situation of these towns and of their potential future as part of a process of heritage designation that their inhabitants believe in.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it