A Community Comes to a Crossroad. Vancouver's Society of Italians
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A Community Comes to a Crossroad. Vancouver's Society of Italians, Volume III. Raymond Culos. Montreal: Cusmano, 2006. 204 pp. $39.95 hc. rayculos@shaw.ca. or 604.298.4683 to order. When handsome building housing Italian Cultural Centre in Vancouver, BC, was finally finished in 1977, it was an epoch-making moment for local Italian community, a cathartic experience in which community's deep emotions, past tensions, and fervent hopes all came together in a moving redemption. Most of Italians who settled in Vancouver came during mass immigration of 1950s and 60s. However, there was already a considerable number of earlier settlers who had arrived since beginning of twentieth century or even earlier. In pre-multiculturalism Canada, Italian immigrants often experienced discrimination, marginalization, and a profound, uneasy feeling of dichotomy, of being the other. Like young protagonist in one of Dino Minni's short stories, who was an Italian at home but a Canadian with an anglicized name in streets, many Italian immigrants reluctantly accepted their double role. For all those immigrants, centre was not just a place to congregate and share communal rituals; it also linked community to its heritage, provided a sense of belonging, and helped to forge a newly emerging, distinct Italian-Canadian identity. A Burnaby-based descendant of a pioneer family whose ancestor, Pietro Culos, came to Canada in 1907 from San Giovanni di Casarsa, Raymond Culos dedicated recently published third volume of his trilogy, Vancouver Society of Italians, to celebration of one-hundred years of community service by his family. Culos enjoyed a successful career as a manager of The Vancouver Sun, The Province, Pacific Press and Southam Newspaper Group and was actively involved in local community for many decades, serving as a board member for Italian Cultural Centre Society [Confratellanza Italo-Canadese] and other prominent Italian Canadian groups, including Association of Italian Canadian Writers. He is a contributor to Italian Canadiana, Accenti and Vancouver Lifestyles magazines. His father, Marino Culos, was first to document activities of Vancouver's Italian associations in 1935. Inspired by those works, Raymond Culos became social historian of Vancouver's Italian community, publishing a body of work that chronicles, in minute detail, salient events occurring over course of several decades while highlighting contributions of some of community leaders. This recent publication, Vancouver's Society of Italians, focusses exclusively on future of Italian Cultural Centre. The text, which consists of ten chapters followed by a series of profiles of community members involved in renovation project's fundraising campaign, provides a very detailed account of various phases of renovation of aging Main Hall, a rental facility that is a major source of revenue for centre. …
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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 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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; 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".