Patrician Elites and Power in Nineteenth-Century Montreal and Quebec City
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A pair of vignettes helps introduce this exploration of patrician power in two North American cities. In 1871, two judges, prominent members of the families we meet below, were among 211 individuals who contributed to the City of Quebec Agricultural Society’s annual exhibition. Judge Jean-Thomas Taschereau paid two Dollars for his annual membership and gave five Dollars to the exhibition prize fund. More parsimonious, his fellow judge Thomas McCord contributed thirty cents for exhibition prizes.1 In 1789, almost a century earlier, the Society had been founded and among the ‘eight English and eight Canadian gentlemen’ chosen as directors were members of the same families: Gabriel-Élzéar Taschereau and a McCord ancestor, George Davidson. The exhibition had two goals that remained constant over a century: judging showcase stock produced on gentlemen estates and, for the popular classes, the ‘encouragement of Agriculture in all of its branches in this district’.2 Over 8,000 people a day attended the 1871 exhibition on the garrison cricket field, visiting an industrial display in the nearby skating and curling rinks, a regatta in the harbour, and a dog show, reputedly the first ever held in Quebec.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.035 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.001 |
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".