Crossing the Strait: What happens to “the Island way of life” when the ferry becomes a bridge?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores whether the Confederation Bridge, linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland of Canada via the province of New Brunswick, has impacted the Island Way of Life on the Island. A review was conducted of local and national newspaper articles between the years 1985, when discussions of a fixed link began, and 1997, the year the bridge opened. In 1987, when the Premier called for a plebiscite, both those opposed and those in favour of the link rallied their two sides at public meetings to ensure their messages were heard. The “no” side raised a number of issues, but their main concern focused on the perceived loss of the Island Way of Life if a fixed link connected the Island to the mainland. Other themes from those debates are also discussed in this thesis, and used to frame the literature review and to review how these areas had been affected when islands around the world were connected to other islands or mainlands with bridges, tunnels or causeways. Additionally, Islanders were interviewed to gain insight into how they voted in the plebiscite, how they felt about the Island Way of Life and the other themes in 1988, how they feel about the Island Way of Life and the issues now, and if they feel the Island has lost its Island Way of Life because of the bridge. This thesis provides some insight into whether Prince Edward Island residents still consider themselves Islanders and if their island identity has been affected by the fixed connection to the mainland. While the Island Way of Life and islandness are very different terms to those more entrenched in nissology, my participants did not see the two as different and so both were used interchangeably when interviewing them. Participants felt that some aspects of the Island had changed, but that the Island Way of Life really had not changed that much, and that there had actually been other things which impacted the Island far more than the bridge.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".