Dominion of Canada
English
Proper noun
- (dated, formal) Canada
- 2001, Alan Rayburn, “Looking at Canada's Places from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and to the Arctic”, in Naming Canada: Stories about Canadian Place Names (nonfiction), University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, How Canada Lost Its 'Dominion', pages 17–18:
- About that time, I was asked by the United Nations to confirm the official long and short names of our country. I assumed the long title was Dominion of Canada, and the short was simply Canada. I was wrong. External Affairs declared that Canada alone was official as both the long and the short name. […] Historians trace the origin of the title Dominion of Canada in the constitution to Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, one of the Fathers of Confederation, from New Brunswick.
- (history) Canada from 1867 to the early Cold War.
Usage notes
Translations
former official name of Canada
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Further reading
Name of Canada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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