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Dominion Day

British  

noun

  1. the former name for Canada Day

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

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

Dominion Day fell on a Monday, and on the previous afternoon, knowing that large bodies of men, including the contestants, were congregated at Tincques, I determined to go over and pay them a visit.

From The Great War As I Saw It by Scott, Frederick George

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