Dominion Day
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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So that's why Canada Day was originally known as "Dominion Day" when the July 1 national holiday was established in 1879.
From Time • Jun. 30, 2017
A few months after the 1982 law was passed, a bill changed the name of Dominion Day to Canada Day.
From Time • Jun. 30, 2017
It mattered not that H. R. H. was in fact too hoarse with a cold to speak or even attend the Dominion Day dinner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Major Grassie in another speech neat and to the point thanks those who had helped to celebrate our Dominion Day and once more calls for cheers and gets them.
From Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee
The occasion was particularly interesting to me, because I was the only man in the whole Canadian Corps at the front who could remember the first Dominion Day.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Scott, Frederick George
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