Vernacular Currents in Western Canadian Historiography: The Passion and Prose of Katherine Hughes, F.G. Roe, and Roy Ito
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Abstract
Western Canadian Studies Conference 2008 - Presentations NiCHE has archived 17 audio presentations from this event The Western Canadian Studies Conference inaugurated a new version of the Western Canadian Studies conferences, which in the 1970s and 1980s helped generate energy and vitality in the field through bi-annual rendezvous. Citation : Dick, Lyle. "Vernacular Currents in Western Canadian Historiography: The Passion and Prose of Katherine Hughes, F.G. Roe, and Roy Ito." Western Canadian Studies Conference. Edmonton, AB. 20 June 2008. Bio : Lyle Dick is the West Coast Historian with Parks Canada in Vancouver. He is the author of 85 publications on topics in Canadian and American history, historiography, and Arctic history, including the book Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact (University of Calgary Press, 2001), which was awarded the CFHSS's Harold Adams Innis Prize in 2003, and Farmers 'Making Good' (Revised edition, University of Calgary Press, 2008), co-awarded the Canadian Historical Association's Certificate of Merit in Regional History (Clio Prize) in 1990. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal The Public Historian(University of California at Santa Barbara), and a former member of the CHA Council and Chair of its Advocacy Committee. Currently, he is a member of the advisory boards of the Canadians and Their Pasts project and NiCHE. In 2008 he was appointed by the National Capital Commission to its External Committee of Experts on Commemorations for Canada's Capital. Abstract : The presentation examines the careers and works of some noted vernacular historians of Western Canada, including Katherine Hughes, a journalist, Alberta's first provincial archivist and author of the first biography of Father Albert Lacombe; F.G. Roe, a homesteader, railroader, and author of the North American Buffalo; and Roy Ito, a Japanese Canadian war veteran, school teacher and author of several notable works on Japanese Canadian history. Drawing on their own personal experiences as witnesses to history, each of these authors brought commitment, compassion, intelligence, and skill to their respective studies on the past. Their works attest to the dynamism of the vernacular impulse and the importance of recovering and nurturing this strain to the revitalization and future viability of the practice of history in western Canada.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.019 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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".