Report. The Select committee to which was referred the petition of Rowland Burr, of the City of Toronto, on the subject of a canal to connect the Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, with the waters of Lake Ontario, at Toronto.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canals did not exceed the dimensions necessary for the passage of boats carrying at; most one or two hundred tons burden, the depth of cut necessary to pass that ridge might well be considered insurmountable ; but at this day when channels are required for vessels of the largest class freighted for Ocean voyages, and with the aid of science and skill, reducing the labor of years to the effort of days, Your 1 i l Committee submit that a depth of cut not exceeding the greatest on this line can- not be looked upon as presenting an obstacle more formidable than the means in hand will justify.Aside from the importance of the carrying trade of the North-western States of the Union, which Your Committee believe will, of itself, fully justify the construc- tion of the work in question, there are other and, in our view, more patriotic considerations, favoring immediate and energetic action upon this subject.It is hardly necessary to say Your Committee now allude to the extensive tract of country lying to the North-west of Lakes Huron and Superior, and always recog- nized as Canadian soil, as well as to that portion of our patrimony hitherto held by the Hudson's Bay Company.This extensive country, rich in mineral and agricultural wealth, will, by the opening of the Toronto and Georgian Bay Canal, be at once far more than doubled in value.In this view of the subject alone, Your Committee respectfully submit will be found considerations fully justifying the most liberal effort on the part of the Government, and of Your Honorable House, for the construction of this work.Should the system of granting public lands in aid of public works of a national character be continued, Your Committee respectfully submit that no work yet projected in Canada, has equal claims with the Toronto and Georgian Bay Canal, to a liberal grant.All which is respectfully submitted.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.210 | 0.095 |
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".