How the Dominion heard the cry, the early history of the Canadian Save the Children Fund, 1922-1946
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the early history of the Canadian Save the Children Fund, a branch of a voluntary British international organization aimed at assisting children during times of war. Founded in 1922, the Fund drew heavily from domestic child-welfare initiatives and was consistently loyal to the British cause. Fostered by both co-operation with other organizations in Canada and the conditions created by the Second World War, the Canadian branch became independent in 1946. This is a systematic study of the early Canadian Fund's organizational structure, as well as its economic and social contributions in an international context. The sources used to reconstruct this early history are varied and draw upon several different archives. Financial statements, minutes of executive meetings, and memoranda of the Canadian Fund were consulted for this study. The annual reports and monthly newsletter of the British Fund were also examined. Additionally, contemporary sources, including newspapers and child-welfare literature help to place this study in context. Similar sources of the Canadian Friends Service Committee, with which the Canadian Fund was closely associated were also utilised. As part of a growing body of scholarship on the history of childhood, this thesis is the first academic study of the early history of the Canadian Save the Children Fund.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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".