"Our God, Our Country, and Our Queen" - Orangeism, the Prince of Wales, and the Canadian Popular Political Tradition
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite the Royal Visit to Kingston in 1860 being billed as a celebratory event, it would not be remembered as such. The Orange Order, one of the largest fraternal organizations in the Canadas at the time, attended the Royal Arrival, despite receiving explicit instructions not to do so. Loudly protesting what they perceived to be an attempt to convince the Crown that the Canadas were Catholic in nature, the Orangemen pushed a two day standoff with the Royal Party. The Royal representative, the Prince of Wales, never left his boat, and Kingston never saw its Prince. In spite of this, the Orange Order proclaimed a victory. They, like their brothers at the Siege of Derry, had stood firm in the fact of Papism. What may seem today like an overreaction on the part of the Orangemen was actually an illustration of the organized violence that characterized mid-nineteenth century Canadian popular politics. The Orange Order represented the interests of Conservative, Tory Protestants, and their actions that day illustrate the fact that said group had reason to be frustrated at the time. The Orange Order, instead of being a violent and unwanted anomaly, represent but an important aspect of the Canadian popular political tradition.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.034 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".