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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

Monck, Lord, and the first Dominion Cabinet, 76-7; and the first Dominion Day honours, 77-8.

From The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion by Pope, Joseph, Sir

The Wolf Willow Dominion Day Celebration Committee were in session in the schoolhouse with the Reverend Evans Rhye in the chair, and all of the fifteen members in attendance.

From The Major by Connor, Ralph