Dominion of Canada

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(dated, formal) Canada
- 2001, Alan Rayburn, “Looking at Canada's Places from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and to the Arctic”, in Naming Canada: Stories about Canadian Place Names (nonfiction), University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, How Canada Lost Its 'Dominion', pages 17–18:
  About that time, I was asked by the United Nations to confirm the official long and short names of our country. I assumed the long title was Dominion of Canada, and the short was simply Canada. I was wrong. External Affairs declared that Canada alone was official as both the long and the short name. […] Historians trace the origin of the title Dominion of Canada in the constitution to Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, one of the Fathers of Confederation, from New Brunswick.
(history) Canada from 1867 to the early Cold War.

former official name of Canada