Macdougall's guide to Manitoba and the North-west.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
rpHE great attention in late years, paid both at home and abroad to the region, of which Manitoba is the centre, has been occasioned by the active measures taken by the Canadian Government to open up and settle the country, and by the wonderful reports as to the extraordinary fertility of the soil, antl the unsurprssel inducements offered to immigrants from all parts of the world.Many circumstances have conspired in the older and more thickly settled countries to direct the attention of the farming classes particularly to new fields of labour and the great prairies of the New Canadian North-west, the praises of which have been heralded by disinterested parties from the Atlantic to the Paci- fic, and throughout the crowded districts of the Mother Country and other European States and Provinces.This has had the effect of creating an immense influx of strangers, amongst them many men of experience and capital, into the great soli- tudes of our new and promising territories, which, now with marvellous pro- gress and rapid growth are developing prosperous cities, towns, villages and set- tlements in different parts of the country.It is impossible, within the limits of a mere introduction, to give even a summary of the salient points of so vast a country, and it is, therefore, sufficient for our pur- poses in this chapter to direct attention to the different features of the subject, which will be treated in a brief and concise form under appropriate headings here- after ; but it is not out of place to add here, that in the compilation of this work we have aimed only at the truth, and have endeavoured to collect together just such information as will be of service to those who have heard more or less of the coun- try, and who have some idea of seeking homes in the North-west.Information of railroad and steamboat connections, transportation, time and distance, etc., serving as a practical guide to the traveller en route to the country, and after his arrival, to the interior, is made a special feature of the work.Of necessity in so limited a compilation, only brief notices and statements can be made, but it shall be our care to give the reader facts and figures of special in- terest about the country, geographical,historical, political; its climate, health, so- ciety, soil and productions : land regulations with the latest government maps, etc.Of course in preparing a work of this kind, intended as a u Guide" to the vis- itor or immigrant, we have freely used information obtained from official and private publications, as well as from well conducted journals, and we acknowledge our obligations ; but we have not in preparing these extracts, thought it neces- sary to particularize in our adoption of their work.GUIDE TO MANITOBA REGULATIONS Respecting tt\e Disposal of certain Public Lar\ds for the purposes of tt\e Canada Pacific Railway.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.200 | 0.100 |
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".