Beneath the brand: a microhistorical inquiry into the renaming of Air Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper, I draw out the micro-analytical promise of microhistory’s lesser-known facets – ‘minor knowledge’ – through a serendipitous encounter with empirical material in an amodern archival project featuring an iconic Canadian airline. The concept of minor knowledge refers to small-scale, often overlooked details and otherwise insignificant narratives that reveal important insights into historical contexts. These contexts are important in microhistory because they connect local events with broader historical processes. With the help of the Trans Canada Airlines’ organizational history, I zoom in on a break in the historical narrative – a little-known critical event involving a brand name change to Air Canada in 1964 – and focus on the impact historical actors had on effectuating this change. Through this research, I draw attention to how, by refining our gaze toward one individual – Jean Chrétien – and his relations to Canadian nationalism and bilingualism, microhistory can enrich our understanding of the interchange between personal agency and the making of larger institutional change.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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 it