Bibliographic record
Abstract
La Vérendrye and the Roots of the Métis People When I was an ma student at the University of Manitoba, not so many years ago in 2013, I attended my first ever academic conference in Ottawa.The conference was the ninth annual Pierre Savard Conference, a graduate student colloquium hosted by the University of Ottawa.I was presenting some of my early research on Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (1685-1749), a French explorer and key figure in the French-Indigenous history of western North America.To my delight, Dr Nicole St-Onge, a renowned historian in the field of Métis history, was chairing our after-lunch session, which was titled "Les Autochtones et les Métis en Amérique du Nord/North American Aboriginal and Métis History."Upon arriving at the conference room, I was surprised to see that Dr St-Onge recognized my surname immediately, even though we had never met and I was just a graduate student from an out-of-province university.Since I was only at the beginning of my academic journey, I had no reputation worth recognizing.Dr St-Onge is known for her work with the Métis community of Saint-Laurent, on the shores of Lake Manitoba, but from the outset she seemed to know a lot about my own Métis family's history from St Vital, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.Dr St-Onge pointed me to an article that she had written in 1985 about Métis families at Pointe-à-Grouette (Sainte-Agathe, Manitoba), including the Berthelettes, who were dispossessed of their agricultural landholdings by francophone settlers from Quebec.Members of the Berthelette family who lost their river lots and were displaced from Pointe-à-Grouette included my greatgreat-great-great grandfather Joseph Berthelet (père, 1809-1894) and my great-great-great grandfather Joseph Berthelet (fils, 1835-1916).
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.002 |
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".