Modernizing a Marginal Maritime Metropolis: The Emergence of Canada’s Postwar Planning Practice in Saint John, New Brunswick
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the 1946 Master Plan for the City and County of Saint John, a municipal plan produced between 1944 and its adoption in 1945 by the architect-planner John Campbell Merrett for the City of Saint John, New Brunswick. I examine this document as both a locally and nationally significant development in Canadian architectural and planning histories. Reviewing the many agencies, commissions, and individuals who influenced the development of the 1946 plan, this thesis proposes a broad interpretation of authorship. This thesis seeks two primary outcomes: first, to intervene in a local discourse that misrepresents the legacy of the plan to the detriment of the region’s architectural scholarship. Second, this thesis seeks to engage the 1946 plan in a national discourse that has yet to address the significant contribution of the city of Saint John to Canadian planning in the critical post-Second World War period of Canadian architectural production. This thesis argues that Merrett’s plan both anticipated and mitigated significant economic setbacks and greatly assisted the struggle of the city of Saint John in maintaining its status as a cultural and economic metropolis during the period. The 1946 plan raises foundational questions of Canadian federalism and its influence on the postwar built environment and highlights the continued national influence of Canada’s easternmost regions.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".