Vancouver Voters, 1886: A Biographical Dictionary by Peter S.N. Claydon and Valerie A. Melanson et al.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Scholarship comes in many forms.We usually move from conceptualization to primary research to reconceptualization into publishable form.The end product is some distance from the primary research underlying it, just as the research process has likely moved the project away from its initial conceptualization.With Vancouver Voters, the authors have stopped somewhere between the second and the third stages of scholarship.The end result is still quite close to the primary research stage, meaning that we can each integrate relevant information into our own projects.We are not dependent oh the authors for reconceptualization and interpretation.Vancouver Voters, 1886, compiled under the auspices of the British Columbia Genealogical Society (BCGS), contains biographical vignettes and genealogies for about 415 of the 528 persons on the first Vancouver voters list, which was compiled in October 1886.For the remainder, all that was located was property owned or some other such basis of voter qualification.The typical largish entry also includes a biographical sketch, along with birth, marriage, and death dates for the voter and his family and descendants so far as possible up to the present day.The voters' list was, of course, a skewed document that in no way equated to the Vancouver population of the day.The young city, which was spun into existence by the completion of the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), only extended from the waterfront south to 16th Avenue, west to Trafalgar, and east to Heatley.Its thousand or so residents did not equate either to the 499 who voted in the first civic election in May or to the 528 making it onto the first voters' list, which was compiled after the fact.According to the Vancouver charter of incorporation, "male or fern sole of the full age of 21 years being a freeholder, householder for at least six months pervious to such election, or preemptor or leaseholder for a term of not less than six months resident within the said city shall be entitled to vote, but no fern sole shall be qualified to sit or vote as mayor or alderman."In other words, residence was not a requirement if one were a property owner, and many on the list were absentee landlords and/or speculators.Just five women were on the voters' list.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.016 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.044 | 0.014 |
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".