Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study suggests that Verdun was a closely knit and proud community during the Second World War and that these characteristics help explain the city's experiences at that turbulent time.More than half a century later Verdunites remain proud of their wartime history, and many have contributed to this work.The following people facilitated and encouraged my research for the doctoral dissertation on which this book is based: Patrice Byloos, archivist, Borough of Verdun, Lois-Ann Clouthier, chief librarian, Borough of Verdun, and Benoit Arcand, Salle Canadiana, Verdun Cultural Centre.Patrice was of enormous help in tracking down photos for this publication.The men and women of the Verdun Branch (No. 4) of the Royal Canadian Legion were also unfailingly helpful and enthusiastic.Many other Verdunites working on behalf of community or parish organizations also welcomed my inquiries for information.Dozens of men and women took the time to meet with me or wrote or telephoned me in response to solicitations for research assistance.The late Miss R.B. Joan Adams of Williamsburg, Ontario, was exceedingly generous with her time and shared her valuable collection of press clippings and correspondence relating to wartime Verdun.I am indebted to Gordon Galbraith of Brockville, Ontario, for introducing me to Miss Adams, as well as for other valuable assistance.Charles Elliott of Verdun put me in contact with many people who offered their memories and memorabilia.Mary Peate of Williston, Vermont, was always encouraging and helpful.Stewart Carson of Verdun made available his remarkable scrapbook of Verdunites at war.Paul Moreau of Lasalle, Quebec, provided many useful documents and photographs.William Weintraub of Westmount, Quebec, lent me his photographs and memories.Many other people were also kind enough to help.I would especially like to acknowledge the assistance provided by Canada's veterans of the Second World War.Over a dozen former crew members of HMCS Dunver responded in writing to my inquiries about wartime life aboard "Verdun's Own Frigate."Other former crewmen were good enough to telephone me.I would like to express special thanks to the late Walter Finlay of Terrebonne, Quebec.The late Joseph Way of Mascouche, Quebec, a naval veteran and "dyed-in-the-
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.396 | 0.246 |
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".