"Possessing No Local Knowledge of this Region": Imperialism and Resistance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Western Canadian Studies Conference 2008 - Presentations NiCHE has archived 17 audio presentations from this event The Western Canadian Studies Conference inaugurated a new version of the Western Canadian Studies conferences, which in the 1970s and 1980s helped generate energy and vitality in the field through bi-annual rendezvous. Citation : Peter Fortna. University of Alberta, '"Possessing No Local Knowledge of this Region": Imperialism and Resistance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.' In Panel: Settlement': Banff and the History of the West." Western Canadian Studies Conference. Edmonton, AB. 20 June 2008. Bio : Peter Fortna Heritage Reserach Coordinator, Metis Local 1935, Fort McMurray, Alberta Abstract : In the late nineteenth century, Yale students S.E.S. (Samuel) Allen and Walter Wilcox climbed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains near Lake Louise. For Wilcox the Rockies offered 'exceptional attractions to those who enjoy natural scenery, sport, and camp life' and for Allen the range provided for 'those interested in mountain climbing . . . almost inexhaustible material.' Their journeys 'marked the inauguration of the last great era of Rocky Mountain exploration and discovery' where previously unexplored peaks, valleys, and lakes were 'discovered' in the Canadian Rockies. Upon their return home the men proclaimed their findings in books and articles, presenting themselves as imperial heroes claiming the Canadian Rockies as their own late imperial conquests. The truth though is their climbs were less heroic adventures and more guided tours led by Aboriginal men. Drawing from both published and unpublished material produced by these two authors, this essay proposes to gain a clearer understanding of how mountaineers transformed their complex cultural encounters into distinct imperial identities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.030 | 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 teacher head, 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".