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Record W7110415728 · doi:10.3138/uhr-2025-0007

Nationalism, Tourism, and Sport: The Annual Meet of the Canadian Wheelmen’s Association in Quebec City, 1–2 July 1896

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Bibliographic record

VenueUrban History Review · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClubNewspaperTheme (computing)Victory

Abstract

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Based primarily on newspaper research using the online research tool BAnQ Numérique, as well as a close analysis of the promotional brochure produced by the Quebec Bicycle Club, this article examines the annual meet of the Canadian Wheelmen’s Association held in Quebec City in 1896. In addition to describing the preparations made by the club prior to the meet, and the events associated with it, the article explores the campaign that won the meet for the historic city. The major theme of that campaign was the need to expand the CWA network beyond Ontario and Montreal, thereby strengthening national unity. The appeal, however, was largely to Quebec City’s historical status as the site of Wolfe’s victory in 1759 rather than to the need to heal wounds that had been caused by the role of the Manitoba Schools Question in the recent federal election.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.073
Threshold uncertainty score0.528

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.006
Science and technology studies0.0070.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.220 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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