<i>La vague celtique</i> , Cultural Heritage, and the Creative Economy in Rural Southern Québec
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As Québec has moved to strengthen its creative economy in recent years, both English-speaking communities and rural areas have become areas of concern. Surprisingly under-examined has been the multiplication of Irish commemorations, memorials, and related heritage attractions in the overwhelmingly French-speaking Appalachian foothills of southern Québec. Irish migration there occurred largely between the 1810s and mid-1840s (before the Great Famine) after the opening of several roads that completed overland connections between Québec City and Boston: the Kennebec Road along the Chaudière River (and the Etchemin Road branching off it) that existed in rudimentary form by 1810; the Craig Road, constructed in 1810; and the Gosford Road, begun in the late 1830s as a winter spur off the Craig. These routes drew Irish migrants into the townships. Their traditions and memories of pioneer life and sectarian tensions have lived on among the area’s dwindling English-speaking communities. Some of their members have rallied to preserve this Irish heritage before it is lost. Bolstered by regional and provincial tourism offices, local businesses, and many francophone descendants of Irish settlers – and also by greater acceptance of pluralism in a more culturally self-confident Québec – they have been building an ecumenical, authentic, and visible Irish presence. So far, they have also avoided the negative aspects of creative-cultural tourism.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 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".