Chapter 6: Imposing the British way: the Canadian Mounted Police and the Klondike gold rush
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Abstract
In the late 1890s, at the height of imperialist sentiment in Canada, an event occurred in a remote part of the dominion which illuminated a number of official Canadian attitudes current in the period. This was the Yukon, or Klondike, gold rush, which took place between the summers of 1897 and 1899. The Mounted Police were in every way the logical body to send to the Yukon to establish Canadian sovereignty and represent the federal government there. The Mounted Police equated public order with British law and justice, and disorder with the American system. In its extreme form the British connection led to enthusiasm for Joseph Chamberlain's Imperial Federation League and flirtation with the idea of eugenics. In its milder version, as displayed during the Klondike gold rush, it furnished a kind of Canadian nationalism, based largely on invidious comparisons with American social institutions.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".