The role of the Roman Catholic Church in the history of Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Christianity has played a major role in shaping both Euro-Canadians and Amerindians in North America for over four centuries. Priests and nuns arrived with the first immigrants and have often been the first white people encountered by the Indians and the Inuit people. The church conducted missionary work among the Native Americans and provided religious services for the settlers. Since 17th century the institutions of the Church and the organisations connected with the Church had been gradually developing in the regions near St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, and since the second half of the 19th century also in the prairies. All this shaped the religious lives of the believers. It also influenced their everyday life, code of values; it had an impact on the ongoing social processes and in many aspects it shaped the political transformations in the northern part of North America. These political transformations shaped the Roman Catholic Church in New France, and later in British North America, and in the developing Dominion of Canada. The article presents the fundamental parts of the chain of mutual conditioning and the process of changes that has been visible in policies and the position of Roman Catholic Church in the subsequent stages of the history of Quebec and Canada, including 20th century and modern times.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 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".