Word: dominione
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When Canadian confederation was agreed upon in 1866, the conferees in London had trouble common to parents everywhere: what to name the baby. Canadians would not take "colony," and Britons vetoed "kingdom." New Brunswick's Sir Leonard Tilley found inspiration in Psalms 72:8-"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea." From that, according to legend and Lady Tilley, the Dominion of Canada got its name...
Three generations of Canadians were proud of the word "Dominion." In 1926 Prime Minister King accepted it in the Imperial Conference's definition of Canada's nationhood.* Of late there have been rumbles. (A bill to change "Dominion Day" to "Canada Day" passed the House two years ago, died in the Senate.) Last week tall, talkative Bona Arsenault, Liberal from Bonaventure, introduced a bill to strike out "Dominion" from all acts and regulations...
...brilliant Oxford-trained historian, Goldwin Smith went to the U.S. in 1868 to teach at Cornell, later moved to Canada where he edited the Canadian Monthly. Despite the unpopularity of such views in Canada, he always argued that the ultimate union of the U.S. and the Dominion, and the breaking of Canadian ties with Britain, were economically inevitable...
...granted that they were the divine rulers of "all that is under Heaven"-despite the fact that their neighbor, the "Caesar" of Moscow, had assumed much the same title and traced his primacy back to both pagan Greece and the prophets of Israel. Londoners, cheering a march-past of Dominion troops at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, could not only assert a similar claim but even believe that at last a point in history had come when the sun would stay obligingly at full noon...
...them, "customs union" means tearing down the tariff wall along the border and erecting a uniform wall around North America. Because the U.S. has 18 times as much economic power as the Dominion, Canadians realize that it would be a U.S. wall. It would probably shut off the Dominion from 'its time-honored British sources of supply. It would kill imperial preference...