The Carving of Canada: A Tale of Parliamentary Gothic/The Liberators/Captured in Stone: Carving Canada's Past/Out of Muskoka/Tales of Courage, Stories from Eastern Ontario's Remarkable Past/Waging Peace, Poetry and Political Action/A Boy All Spirit, Thoreau MacDonald in the 1920s
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Munroe Scott, The Carving of Canada: A Tale of Parliamentary Gothic (Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 1999), 176pp. Paper. $19.95. ISBN 0-9212-5493-8. Munroe Scott, The Liberators (Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 2001), 223pp. Paper. $21.95. ISBN 1-8941-3121-5. Eleanor Milne with K. Barbara Lambert and Eleanor Moore, Captured In Stone: Carving Canada's Past (Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 2002), 95pp. Cloth. $29.95. ISBN 1-8941-3132-0. James Bartleman, Out of Muskoka (Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 2002), 192pp. Cloth. $29.95. ISBN 1-8941-3131-2. Bernard Chevrier, Tales of Courage, Stories From Eastern Ontario's Remarkable Past (Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 2002), 128pp. Paper. $19.95. ISBN 1-8941- 3130-4. Susan McMaster (ed.), Waging Peace, Poetry and Political Action (Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 2002), 144pp. Paper. $24.95. ISBN 1-8941-3137-1. John W. Sabean (ed.), A Boy All Spirit, Thoreau MacDonald in the 1920s (Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 2002), 304pp. Cloth. $39.95. ISBN 1-8941-3129-0. Penumbra Press is one of scores of small Canadian publishers that are turning out some of Canada's finest books. One of the press's most prolific authors is Munroe Scott. In 2001, Penumbra published Scott's The Liberators, a raucous novel set in late 1830s, in post-rebellion Upper Canada where anti-government activity continued on islands in the St Lawrence, near Cornwall, even after William Lyon Mackenzie had fled the colony. Scott and his editor at Penumbra are currently polishing Scott's memoirs, which will give readers a glimpse of this man's range and durability, from film to biography and fiction. In late 2002, Penumbra published Eleanor Milne's Captured in Stone: Carving Canada's Past, a companion piece to another of Munroe Scott's books, The Carving of Canada. Both books deal with the same subject, the history of Canada, from pre-contact to 1914, as represented in the flora, fauna and people carefully carved into the Indiana limestone of the foyer leading to Canada's House of Commons. The work was carried out during the last half of the twentieth century. Eleanor Milne, Dominion Sculptor from 1962 to 1993, was the woman who headed the massive project. In Scott's book she becomes an obscure mythological figure called 'Ti'Elen. The difference between the two books is one of method: while Scott has a mythical 'Old One' describe the carvings and the history they represent, Captured in Stone uses analytical narrative, the more traditional historical method. Milne explains styles of architecture and art, from Romanesque to Neo-Gothic, as well as stone-carving methods, from design to process and tools. Captured in Stone is beautifully illustrated, mostly in black and white, with two or three fullpage colour photographs of the entire foyer, which show that the interior of this Neo-Gothic building is arguably as beautiful as the interiors of the European cathedrals whose style its architects and carvers emulated. Also recently published by Penumbra is James Bartleman's Out of Muskoka, a short, elegantly written memoir. Few readers will be unmoved by his rise from poverty and discrimination to the top of the diplomatic and vice-regal life in Canada. (Today he is Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario.) Born in 1939, Bartleman grew up in a canvas tent and a series of uninsulated frame shacks around Port Carling, some three hours drive north of Toronto. At school, epithets such as 'dirty halfbreed' were hurled at the family. The future looked gloomy until one day along came a fairy godfather, an American millionaire on holiday in Muskoka. He paved the road to higher education and diplomacy. All is well until one night in Cape Town, an intruder, equipped with an electric prong of high voltage, manages to breach the posh hotel's tight security. He manages to get inside Bartleman's room where he prods, gags and robs the diplomat, who survives only to suffer from mental depression and nightmares, which return him in memory to childhood poverty in Muskoka. …
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.034 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.002 |
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".