The Hunt for Gold and the Road to the Establishment of British Columbia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The thesis deals with the historical development of the Canadian province of British Columbia up to its entry into the Canadian Confederation in 1871. The introductory part focuses on the early exploratory voyages that opened the region to European interests, and on the increasing involvement of European powers, especially Great Britain in the area of present-day Vancouver Island and surrounding regions, where the first settlement efforts emerged. The thesis further analyses the events of the War of 1812, which significantly influenced the political and economic development of this borderland area and shaped its relations with neighbouring powers. Special attention is paid to the presidency of James K. Polk, during which efforts to annex British Columbia to the United States intensified. These efforts culminated in the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which established the boundary between British and American territories and created the conditions for the province's subsequent development. The thesis examines how this border supported the dynamic development of the colony, particularly through the Fraser River and Cariboo gold rushes. These gold rushes attracted thousands of prospectors from Europe, China, and other parts of the world, and led to the development of infrastructure such as the Cariboo Wagon...
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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".