Quebec and Ontario in the Student Volunteer Movement between 1888 and 1914
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the role of students from Quebec and Ontario in the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions (SVM) from the formation of the organization to the eve of World War I. At this time there was excitement building among Christians for foreign mission and a belief that the whole world could be reached within a matter of years. The urgency came from several Western countries, including Canada.In order to understand how those from Quebec and Ontario were involved, this thesis examines personal accounts, records of convention attendance, talks given, and lists of those who went into foreign mission. It also analyzes the SVM convention held in Toronto in 1902 to understand how Canada interacted with larger SVM events. Lastly, the thesis studies Canadian women who were involved in the SVM.This thesis demonstrates that those from Quebec and Ontario not only were involved within the SVM but also played significant and diverse roles within it. Their contributions were helpful to the goals of the movement. The accounts of those engaged with the SVM illustrate how participants from these provinces embraced its vision and undertook a wide range of roles within the organization.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".