In 2010, Dominion Voting Systems purchased the primary assets of Premier, including all intellectual property, software, firmware and hardware for Premier ’ s current and legacy optical scan, central scan, and touch screen voting systems, and all versions of the GEMS election management system from ES & S.

* Official site of Dominion Voting

The company then sold it to Dominion Voting Systems.

Dominion, under its former corporate name Video Satellite Systems Inc., was actually the second from among the first nine companies to apply to the FCC for a high-power DBS license in 1981, and it was the sole surviving DBS pioneer from that first round of forward-thinking applicants until the sale of their license to EchoStar Communications Corporation in 2007 and departure from satellite distribution in 2008.

The new Dominion of Canada acquired the territories of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870.

Zucker had previously been the head of the Polymer Group, which acquired another Canadian institution, the Dominion Textile Company.

These parks include Paramount's Great America, now acquired by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company and renamed to California's Great America, Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, And Kings Island.

The Dominion acquired Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company and the North-Western Territory from the Crown in 1869, and took ownership on December 1 of that year, merging them and naming them North-West Territories ( though final payment to the Hudson's Bay Company did not occur until 1870 ).

Howard Smith ( along with St. Lawrence Company ) was acquired by Dominion Tar & Chemical in 1961 which then rebranded itself as Domtar in 1965.

A & P's Canadian division was later acquired by Metro Inc., which rebranded the remaining Dominion stores to its namesake banner in 2008.

Dominion Stores had been acquired by A & P's Canadian division, A & P Canada, from Argus in 1985.

* Quebec: Dominion stores in Quebec were sold to Provigo in 1983 ; Provigo was itself acquired by Loblaw in 1998.

Exterior of a typical Dominion store ( at Don Mills Centre in Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario ), prior to rebranding as Metro in late 2008 Metro, which previously operated solely in Quebec and the Ottawa area, acquired A & P Canada from the U. S .- based parent company effective August 15, 2005.

Most land was acquired by absentee landowners, with speculation built on the decision of the new Dominion of Canada to build a railway to the Pacific to begin somewhere along the north shore of Lake Superior.

Most land was acquired by absentee landowners, with speculation built on the decision of the new Dominion of Canada to build a railway to the Pacific to begin somewhere along the north shore of Lake Superior.

However, after that time, the Dominions were largely free to act in matters of defence and foreign affairs, if they so chose and " Dominion " gradually acquired a new meaning: a state which was independent of Britain, but which shared the British monarch as the official head of state.

In 1847, the then Bytown was deeded acres by the Dominion government, and acquired another bought from owners over several years, to make up the initial grounds of Lansdowne Park.

The property owned by industrialist James Dunsmuir, along with his mansion Hatley Castle, was acquired by the Dominion Government in 1940.

1836 ) to become Barclays Bank Dominion Colonial Overseas in 1925 after Barclays acquired The Colonial Bank when it acquired the London Provincial and South Western Bank in 1918.

( Earlier American Asian had acquired a portion of the failed American City Bank in 1983 and Toronto Dominion Bank of California in 1984 ).

* Dominion Motor Spirit, a British brand of petrol in the 1920s later acquired by Shell-Mex and BP

Guardians of Order acquired licenses and published Big Eyes, Small Mouth-based RPGs for a number of other anime series including Dominion Tank Police, Demon City Shinjuku, and Tenchi Muyo.

A & P Canada left the Quebec market in 1984, and in 1985 acquired Dominion Stores in Ontario.

The area later to become Alberta was acquired by the fledging Dominion of Canada in 1870 in the hopes that it would become an agricultural frontier settled by White Canadians.

* Dominion Malting Co .-acquired by International Malting Company Limited and operated as IMC of Canada Limited ; later acquired by ADM Malting ( a division of Archer Daniels Midland ); now part of Malteurop North American operations

It was acquired by Argus Corporation via Dominion Stores Ltd. in 1963, eventually adopting the Dominion brand.

In these countries, terms such as " Federal Premier ", " National Premier ", or " Premier of the Dominion " were sometimes used to refer to prime ministers, although these are now obsolete.

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau ( May 30, 1820 – April 4, 1890 ), born in Charlesbourg, near Quebec City, was the first Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec following the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867.

Premier William Annand and federal MP Joseph Howe pushed for the removal of Nova Scotia from the new Dominion.

Crowds on Parliament Hill celebrate Dominion Day, 1927, the 60th jubilee of confederation

Beginning in 1958, the Canadian government began to orchestrate Dominion Day celebrations, usually consisting of Trooping the Colour ceremonies on Parliament Hill in the afternoon and evening, followed by a mass band concert and fireworks display.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

There was talk of a Maritime Union of the three provinces to have greater political power ; however, the first discussions on the subject in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference led to the process of Canadian Confederation which formed the larger Dominion of Canada instead. Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, an archetypal Maritime scene

) Scullin was equally insistent that the monarch must act on the relevant Prime Minister's direct advice ( the practice until 1926 was that Dominion prime ministers advised the monarch indirectly, through the British government, which effectively had a veto over any proposal it did not agree with ).

* Cooperation and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Romans, 2000

* Inheritance and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Deuteronomy, 1999 ISBN 0-930464-78-8

* Priorities and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Matthew, 2000

* Sanctions and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Numbers, 2000 ISBN 0-930464-76-1

* Treasure and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Luke, 2000

* Elemér Boreczky, John Wyclif ’ s Discourse on Dominion in Community ( Leiden, Brill, 2007 ) ( Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 139 ).

Kenya attained independence on Dec. 12, 1963 as the Dominion of Kenya with HM The Queen as Head of State.

The Governor of South Australia, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, who was in England at the time, expressed his concern to British Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs James Henry Thomas that this would cause a significant impact on trade between the nations.

* 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.

The British North America Act took effect on July 1, 1867, establishing the Dominion of Canada, initially with four provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.

" O Canada " had served as a de facto national anthem since 1939, officially becoming Canada's national anthem in 1980 when the Act of Parliament making it so received Royal Assent and became effective on July 1 as part of that year's Dominion Day celebrations.

John Wycliffe's 19 reformation articles on church related items as he wrote in his On Civil Dominion and 21 proposed reformation articles of Johannes Klenkoka's Decadecon were submitted to Pope Gregory XI in the early part of the 1370s.

* Svenska Pommern, a Dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815, situated on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland

Bennett retired to Britain in 1938, and, on June 12, 1941, became the first and only former Canadian Prime Minister to be elevated to the peerage as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

The Soulbury constitution ushered in Dominion status for Ceylon, with independence proclaimed on 4 February 1948.

Worf continued to serve on the Rotaran after Sisko withdrew from DS9 at the beginning of the Dominion War.

The entry of the Breen into the war on the side of the Dominion temporarily sidelined the Federation and Romulan fleets which proved vulnerable to Breen weaponry.

He began ordering Martok on near-suicidal missions against Dominion forces, hoping that a string of defeats would weaken Martok's popularity and discredit him as a military leader.

Sometime between October 2372 and February 2373, with a Dominion attack on Deep Space Nine imminent, Gul Dukat announced the Cardassian Union's entry into the Dominion, shocking not only the Federation but most Cardassians as well.