Canada Day in London 2010

[Dixiecat]

Thank you for pointing out that little bit of history and fact. I understand that Canada is technically a dominion, but it's not been called that for a very long time. It's been a donkey's age since I've seen 'Dominion of' in front of 'Canada'. Which is what I meant in my earlier post, my pardon everyone.

[Lallans]

Thank you for pointing out that little bit of history and fact. I understand that Canada is technically a dominion, but it's not been called that for a very long time. It's been a donkey's age since I've seen 'Dominion of' in front of 'Canada'. Which is what I meant in my earlier post, my pardon everyone.

The common usage of 'Dominion' has indeed been dropped though, both observably and by official policy, as per this quote from the dreaded Wikipedia: "As Canada asserted its political autonomy from the United Kingdom, the federal government increasingly used simply Canada on state documents and treaties, a change that was reflected in the renaming of the national holiday from Dominion Day to Canada Day in 1982."

This all brings to mind the Father of Confederation who famously said he didn't want (Nova Scotia?) to become a "Damn-minion of Canada," and the more modern admonishment of "Don't call me Shirley!" Semantics!