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Dominion of Canada had eleven boilers throughout her career: 8952 ( from new ); 8908 ( from 2510 Quicksilver ), February 21, 1942 ; 9126 ( from 4482 Golden Eagle ), May 10, 1946 ; 9018 ( from 19 Bittern ), April 8, 1949 ; 29273 ( from 60014 Silver Link ), September 29, 1950 ; 29321 ( New build ), August 27, 1953 ; 29323 ( from 60014 Silver Link ), February 17, 1955 ; 29312 ( from 60018 Sparrow Hawk ), June 1, 1956 ; 29272 ( from 60002 Sir Murrough Wilson ), December 27, 1957 ; 29307 ( from 60028 Walter K. Whigham ), July 10, 1959 ; and finally 27970 ( from 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley ), December 5, 1962.
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Dominion and Canada
In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.
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.
Originally called Dominion Day (), the name was changed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed.
Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, have, since the 1950s, celebrated both Dominion or Canada Day and the United States ' Independence Day with the International Freedom Festival ; a massive fireworks display over the Detroit River, the strait separating the two cities, is held annually with hundreds of thousands of spectators attending.
In 1946, Philéas Côté, a Quebec member of the House of Commons, introduced a private member's bill to rename Dominion Day as Canada Day.
Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts held in Ottawa were added, and the fête became known as Festival Canada ; after 1980 the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.
As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).
Armed with the knowledge of shock-metamorphic features, Carlyle S. Beals and colleagues at the Dominion Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Wolf von Engelhardt of the University of Tübingen in Germany began a methodical search for impact craters.
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
This was reversed by the British North America Act in 1867 which established the Dominion of Canada.
The Dominion of Newfoundland, Britain's oldest colony in the Americas, joined Canada as a province in 1949.
The statute, an essential transitory step from the British Empire to the Commonwealth of Nations, provided that all existing Dominions became fully independent of the United Kingdom ( upon its ratification by the federal legislature for Canada ) and all new Dominions would be fully independent upon the grant of Dominion status.
* 1931 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
* Dominion of Canada Rifle Association
In the late 19th century, its vast territory became the largest component in the newly formed Dominion of Canada, in which the company was the largest private landowner.
In 1947, the King issued letters patent granting his Canadian governor general permission to exercise all those powers belonging to the monarch in respect of Canada and, at the Imperial Conference of 1949, the decision was reached to use the term member of the Commonwealth instead of Dominion to refer to the non-British member states of the Commonwealth of Nations.
* Canada Day ( formerly Dominion Day ) July 1
* Canada Day, formerly Dominion Day.
Several nationalist leaders banded together in 1916 under the leadership of Annie Besant to voice a demand for self-government, and to obtain the status of a Dominion within the British Empire as enjoyed by Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Newfoundland at the time.
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) 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 ).
Zucker had previously been the head of the Polymer Group, which acquired another Canadian institution, the Dominion Textile Company.
Previously, the Privy Council had ruled in Ibralebbe v The Queen AC 900 that it remained the highest court of appeal in Ceylon notwithstanding the country's independence as a Dominion in 1948.
Ranbir Singh's grandson Hari Singh, who had ascended the throne of Kashmir in 1925, was the reigning monarch in 1947 at the conclusion of British rule of the subcontinent and the subsequent partition of the British Indian Empire into the newly independent Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.
" 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.
Worf learned that the Klingons were planning to invade Cardassia because of a coup which they had been led to believe was engineered by the Dominion.
The ship had suffered many losses to the Dominion and morale was low.
The informant is subsequently executed by the Dominion, causing Captain Benjamin Sisko, the commander of Deep Space Nine, to caution that Starfleet might not grant Worf his own command after this incident, but adds that had he been forced to choose between his duty and his wife, he would have done the same thing.
In January 2372 ( Stardate 49011 ) the Klingon Empire attacked the Cardassian Union, believing the Detapa Council of Cardassia ( which had just come to power in the wake of the Cardassian Central Command being overthrown, making it the first civilian government of the Cardassian Union with Gul Dukat as military advisor ) had been infiltrated by the Dominion (" The Way of the Warrior ").
The attack was led by General Martok who, it turned out, had been himself replaced by a shapeshifter, one of the leaders of the Dominion ( first revealed in " Apocalypse Rising "; see also " In Purgatory's Shadow ").
While he had hoped that Cardassia's joining the Dominion would strengthen their power, he felt that they were no longer in control of even their own planet, having to report to the Dominion representative Weyoun and the Founders, and Cardassian troops were being sacrificed seemingly meaninglessly without his permission.
The Romulan Empire signed a non-aggression treaty with the Dominion towards the end of 2373, which had gained a foothold in the Alpha Quadrant in Cardassian space shortly before the Dominion War broke loose.
They showed them to a high-ranking Romulan senator, Vreenak, who had negotiated the Romulan non-aggression treaty with the Dominion and was vice-chairman of the Tal Shiar, secretary of the War Plans Council, and one of Proconsul Neral's most trusted advisors.
The rogue Federation agency, Section 31, had an agent in the Tal Shiar to safeguard Federation interests feeling that after the Dominion War, the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire would be the only two powers left in the region and would go to war.
* As a British Dominion, The Irish Free State, had limited autonomy.
The TNG episode " Bloodlines " features a dangerous and experimental " subspace transporter " capable of interstellar distances and the Dominion had the ability to transport over great distances ( DS9: " Covenant ").
After the Second World War, the British Colonial Office had preferred that colonies move towards political independence in the kind of federal systems which had appeared to succeed since the Confederation of Canada, which created the Dominion of Canada, in the nineteenth-century.
The Montego Bay conference of 1948 had declared the common aim to be the achievement by the West Indies of " Dominion Status " ( which meant constitutional independence from Britain ) as a Federation.
This was by far the largest conflict the Federation had ever been involved in, allying with the Klingons and Romulans against the combined forces of the Dominion, the Cardassians, and Breen.
The Federation / Klingon / Romulan alliance was victorious, due in no small part to the Cardassians switching sides in the war after some of its officials realized that the Dominion had bloodlessly conquered them, but with substantial casualties on both sides.
He had the words " Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup " engraved on one side of the outside rim, and " From Stanley of Preston " on the other side.
Dominion and eleven
Old Dominion has a complex and diverse Greek system with fourteen fraternities and eleven sororities.
Dwight D. Eisenhower has had eleven boilers during her career: 8959 ( from new ); 8945 ( from 4482 Golden Eagle ), 30 January 1942 ; 8906 ( spare ) from 23 November 1946 ; 8955 ( from 60026 Miles Beevor ), 14 June 1950 ; 29314 ( new ), 9 November 1951 ; 29303 ( from 60030 Guillemot ) 18 June 1954 ; 29296 ( from 60033 Seagull ), 8 July 1955 ; 29308 ( from 60032 Golden Fleece ), 20 December 1956 ; 29312 ( from 60010 Dominion of Canada ), 20 August 1958 ; 27964 ( new ), 30 June 1960 and finally 29335 ( from 60019 Bittern ), 17 May 1962.
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