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Record W58226555

“Canada is no dumping ground”: Public Discourse and Salvation Army Immigrant Women and Children, 1900–1930

2007· article· en· W58226555 on OpenAlex
Myra Rutherdale

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueHistoire sociale · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImmigrationEthnologyPolitical sciencePopulationHumanitiesGender studiesSociologyArtDemographyLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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From 1900 to 1930 approximately 200,000 immigrants came to Canada from Britain under the auspices of the Salvation Army. This group of immigrants was on one hand encouraged and welcomed because they fit into the desired racial and ethnic categories. On the other hand, however, they were frequently the target of criticism because some Canadians feared that the British were dumping the most poverty-stricken of their population in Canada. The experiences of 200 “pauper” children and 200 women intended for domestic work, all of whom were sponsored by the Salvation Army, contradict this perception. Despite the anxieties of many contemporaries, this group adapted and prospered in their new surroundings. De 1900 a 1930, environ 200 000 immigrants sont venus au Canada de Grande-Bretagne sous les auspices de l’Armee du Salut. D'une part, ces immigrants etaient encourages et invites a venir s’etablir parce qu’ils correspondaient aux categories raciales et ethniques souhaitees. D'autre part, cependant, ces gens faisaient souvent l'objet de critiques parce que certaines Canadiens craignaient que les Britanniques ne se debarrassent des plus pauvres de leur population en les envoyant au Canada. L’experience de 200 enfants pauvres et de 200 femmes destinees a servir comme domestiques, tous parraines par l’Armee du Salut, contredit cette perception. Malgre l’inquietude de nombreux contemporains, ce groupe s’est adapte et a prospere dans son nouvel environnement.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.493
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.215
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it