Dominion of Canada

English Proper noun en dated formal Canada en 1867 Parliament of the United Kingdom w:British North America Act 1871 Long title [s:British North America Act 1871] 1 An Act respecting the establishment of Provinces in the Dominion of Canada. en 1954 February Trevor Holloway Canada's Transcontinental Routes Railway Magazine 127-128 In that year [1871] British Columbia decided to become part of the Dominion of Canada, on condition that a transcontinental railway should be completed without delay. en 2001 Alan Rayburn Naming Canada: Stories about Canadian Place Names nonfiction w:University of Toronto Press 0-8020-8293-9 Looking at Canada's Places from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and to the Arctic How Canada Lost Its 'Dominion' 17–18 https://books.google.com/books?id=aiUZMOypNB4C&pg=PA14&q=%22Dominion+of+Canada%22 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. en history Canada from 1867 to the early Cold War. Usage notes See w:Name of Canada#Kingdom and Dominion. Translations former official name of Canada Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 加拿大自治領 French: fr Dominion du Canada m German: de Dominion Kanada n Irish: ga Tiarnas Cheanada m Further reading Name of Canada#Adoption of Dominion Name of Canada Dominion of Canada (disambiguation) en Canada