An Experience That Lasts a Lifetime: Building Modernity, Man, and Nation at the YMCA of Montreal's Kamp Kanawana, 1894-1967
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With their stunning lakefront views and pristine forest trails, summer camps have been a hallmark of a Canadian summer since their inception in the 1890s. Established out of anti-modernist and anti-urbanist sentiments among the upper-middle class, summer camps have been cemented as an important rite of passage for Canadian youth. They are also integral in the construction of national and masculine identities. This thesis takes one of the oldest summer camps in Canada and considers how the overlapping currents of religion, colonialism, and national identity practice took shape at the YMCA of Montreal’s Kamp Kanawana. Located an hour north of Montreal, Kanawana has operated since the 1890s and thousands of young children have passed through its gates. From 1894 to 1967, Kanawana was open only to boys and through its varied programming, helped form distinctly masculine and Canadian young men. This thesis is divided in three thematic chapters that each look at an important phase of Kanawana programming: active Christian citizenship, playing Indian, and the myth of the voyageur. Drawing from archival research and personal experiences at a different YMCA camp, this thesis explores the legacy of summer camps like Kanawana in the Canadian imagination.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".