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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

Capitalize the names of holidays and days observed as holidays by churches, as Fourth of July, Dominion Day, Good Friday, Yom Kippur, Columbus Day, Washington's Birthday.

From The Style Book of The Detroit News by News, The Detroit

The schoolmaster made up his mind that if he lived till the next first of July, he would show the people what a Dominion Day celebration ought to be.

From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller