Not Lost at Sea: The Ajax Club of Halifax
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Abstract
Halifax was known as the least favourite wartime Atlantic port for sailors and roundly received criticism for the treatment of sailors ashore. The fate of the Ajax Club became a much-cited example of that belief. In May 1945 that displeasure would infamously come to a head in the V-E Day riots. The Ajax Club story and the naval badges received from ships’ crews and naval authorities are a reminder of the uncertainty of public memory. The efforts and legacy of a civilian woman was a local story that played an unexpectedly larger role in wartime Canada and in subsequent years. En temps de guerre, Halifax était connue comme le port atlantique le moins apprécié des marins en raison du manque d’installations de repos et de détente et d’une certaine frilosité de la part de la société locale. On a souvent cité comme exemple du caractère peu accueillant de la ville le sort du Ajax Club que Dolly McEuen a fondé pour accueillir les marins en 1940 et qui a fermé ses portes en 1942 suite aux pressions exercées par les partisans de la sobriété. Et le sort des insignes navals que le club recevait des équipages et des autorités navales reconnaissants pour décorer ses murs est un exemple de l’incertitude associée à la mémoire collective. Les campagnes menées par Dolly McEuen pour le bien-être des marins ont acquis une importance nationale pendant la guerre mais, malgré ses efforts de préserver et exposer les insignes navals en guise de mémorial, la collection a finalement été négligée et certains éléments ont été perdus. Le présent article fait partie d’un effort visant à récupérer et à préserver les insignes.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.003 |
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".