Word: dominione
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Across the Dominion, most people seemed stolidly unperturbed. With holiday plans or crop prospects to think about, Canadians felt far away from Korea. But there was calm agreement that the time had come at last to stop Red aggression. From the quiet reaches of New Brunswick came unusually heated words. Said the Saint John Times-Globe: "Probably a few [atom bombs] dropped now would quickly send the North Koreans back behind the 38th Parallel...
After Pearl Harbor, Canada's West Coast, like the U.S. West Coast, was swept by panicky anger against its Japanese population. From British Columbia, where almost all of the Dominion's 23,000 Japanese lived, the new suspects were hustled into the interior. Their homes, farms and fishing boats were confiscated by the government, sold at sacrifice prices...
...Gave the Federal Government "full dominion and power" over the oil-rich tide-lands off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana...
Debtor Nation. In Marshfield, Wis., Gerald Boos and Arthur Lynn, arguing that most of last winter's harsh weather originated in Canada, decided to bill the Dominion for $136, half of their annual heating bill...
...Dominion government took over all prairie mineral rights not then privately owned, turned them over to the provinces in 1930. Almost all the royalties from the current Alberta oil boom have gone to the province, some to the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Hudson's Bay Company...