Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book -an exploration of events that have long been discussed and debated by generations of Catholics in eastern Nova Scotia -has been many years in the making.In both rural St Andrews, Antigonish County, where I was raised, and in my father's native parish of New Aberdeen, a famously militant section of the Glace Bay mining community, the symbiotic relationship between Church and community was evident.It was often a "mix of facts and myth, criticism and romance," as the late Fr Ed MacIsaac once told me, but Catholics in the region were always aware of the activities of the Church outside of the sanctuary.I owe a great debt to a historian whom I have never met.Fr Angus Anthony ("A.A.") Johnston died on 18 September 1977 at St Martha's Hospital in Antigonish town.Two weeks later, I was born under that same roof and so we missed each other by a mere fortnight.Quiet, cerebral, and courteous, Johnston was a legendary figure, tramping through the tall summer grass in search of weathered gravestones, studiously researching in the Vatican archive, and spryly climbing the many stairs to his office in the Angus L. Macdonald Library on the campus of St Francis Xavier University.He not only wrote several parish histories and two superb volumes on the history of Catholicism in eastern Nova Scotia but also left an exhaustive archive from which I have benefited.My friend Fr Edward J.R. Jackman, op, who died in June 2021, funded the research for this book.Besides his commitment to the Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Fr Jackman and his dedicated associate, Valerie Burke, have helped many historians pursue the history of religion in Canada
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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 | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.313 | 0.205 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier 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".