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n.
the name of the Confederation of Canada as created by the British North America Act in 1867.
See: Dominion of Canada
Quotations
1859
[In the language of Roebuck, "The language of England went from Halifax to Vancouver's Island, the institutions of Britain would reach thence as far as habitable land, even to the pole; and we shall have such a dominion as the world never saw."]
1870
. . . on account of his being son of the Dominion Premier, he . . . has been appointed over the heads of older and more experienced volunteer officers. . . .
1889
[Sir John A. Macdonald, letter from Rivière-du-Loup to Lord Knutsford, July 18, 1889] On reading the above [letter] over I see that it will convey the impression that the change of title from Kingdom to Dominion was caused by the Duke of Buckingham. This is not so. It was made at the instance of Lord Derby, then (1867) foreign minister, who feared the first name would wound the sensibilities of the Yankees.
1963
In these varied accomplishments the government was responding to public pressures and applying party principles rather than implementing a national policy such as the unfinished state of the Dominion demanded.