Shifting Landscapes and the Creation of Gatineau Park during the Great Depression
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Abstract
Perspectives on Parks 2010 Presentations NiCHE has archived audio presentations from this event Alexander, Steve. "Shifting Landscapes and the Creation of Gatineau Park during the Great Depression" Historical and Global Perspectives on Provincial, Local & Regional Parks in Canada. 29 October 2010. Bio: Steve Alexander is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England. Abstract: Gazing northwest from Parliament Hill in the Canadian capital city of Ottawa, the rolling forested landscape of Gatineau Park stretches as far as the eye can see out beyond the city of Gatineau along the horizon. Only minutes from the footsteps of the capital, Gatineau Park and its associated forested landscape has been a source of inspiration, recreation and rejuvenation for both capital residents and visitors alike since the beginning of the twentieth century. However, since it’s establishment and creation in 1938, it has also been the source of much controversy. Current controversial issues vary from parkland ownership, shifting park boundaries and its status as a federal but non-national park to private in-holdings, its stewardship by the National Capital Commission and the Park’s initial establishment. While there is much to be explored in each and every one of these issues aforementioned, it is the last, the park’s initial establishment, which Alexander focuses upon here. The purpose of this presentation is to explore the role and influence of the Great Depression on the establishment of Gatineau Park. In some respects, Gatineau Park was born out of unemployment. Its birth aided by the climate of the Great Depression, its associated unemployment and the turn of events directly propelled by it. More specifically Alexander proposes that extensive deforestation in the Gatineau Hills fuelled by unemployment and the framing of the Gatineau Parkway Project as an unemployment relief effort were both crucial to the formalization of Gatineau Park finally occurring and its creation, albeit in an embryonic form.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".