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.

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.

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

* Two world class roller coasters have been named after Earnhardt ; the Intimidator ( roller coaster ) at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Intimidator 305 located at Kings Dominion in Virginia.

During the Dominion War, Akleen's family home lay in Dominion-controlled space ; Elim Garak suggested that recapturing it would lead to a major propaganda victory for Federation forces.

Martok, leading the Klingon fleet ; Admiral Ross & Captain Sisko, leading the Federation fleet ; and the Romulans attacked and defeated the Dominion on the Cardassian homeworld.

In 2371 the Romulan Tal Shiar intelligence agency and their Cardassian counterparts, the Obsidian Order, launched a preemptive strike against the Dominion ; their entire fleet of approximately 4 Warbirds and 12 Keldon class Cardassian vessels, however, was destroyed, and it was revealed that the Tal Shiar officer leading the attack was actually a Dominion agent.

When the Romulans examined the wreckage, they discovered the recordings ; assuming the incriminating defects to have been caused by the explosion, the Romulan Star Empire entered the war against the Dominion, joining the Klingon-Federation alliance.

* Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul is a trilogy written by Sherman and Shwartz between 2004 and 2007 ; set in the aftermath of the Dominion War, it focuses on members of Kirk's original crew becoming involved in a war between the Romulans and a fellow Vulcan off-shoot, the Watraii.

Several of the colonies briefly refused to join the Dominion despite pressure from both Canada and Britain ; Newfoundland held out until 1949.

; 1867: The Constitution Act, 1867 passes and British North America becomes Dominion of Canada.

During the next five years the position of the Governor General of a Dominion was clarified ; he ceased to be a representative of the British government and became a representative of The Crown.

** 10, 000 disgruntled Newfoundlanders march on their legislature to show discontent with their current political situation ; this is a flash point in the demise of the Dominion of Newfoundland.

After the British army withdrew from most locations in Canada in 1870-71, two batteries of garrison artillery were formed by the Dominion Government-one in Kingston ; the other in Quebec City.

The area was transferred from British colonial authority to the Dominion of Canada in 1894 and named after Sir John Franklin in the following year ; however, the northernmost islands were claimed by Norway until the year 1930.

His main focus was to restore Quebeckers ' pride in their identity by knowledge of history, both the heroic acts of New France and the French Canadian and self-government rights obtained through a succession of important political victories: 1774, the Quebec Act recognized the rights of the Quebec province and its people with respect to French law, Catholic religion and the French language ; in 1848, responsible government was finally obtained after decades of struggle, along with the rights of the French language ; in 1867, the autonomy of the province of Quebec was restored as Lower Canada was an essential partner in the creation of a new Dominion through Confederation Confederation canadienne, Montreal, Quebec 10 / 10, 1978 ( 1918 ).

In 1919 at the Peace Conference the Dominion leaders, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia argued their case to keep their occupied German possessions of German Samoa, German South West Africa, and German New Guinea ; these territories were given a " Class C Mandates " to the respective Dominions.

Southern Rhodesia at the time was a British Crown Colony ( rather than a Dominion ) and was not involved in the negotiation or signing of the BCATP ; the Southern Rhodesia Air Force was subsumed by the RAF in 1940.

India remained a Dominion of the Crown until 26 January 1950, when the Constitution of India came into force, establishing the Republic of India ; Pakistan was a dominion until 1956.

Ongoing political difficulties with England after the English Restoration led to the revocation of the colonial charter in 1684 ; King James II established the Dominion of New England in 1686 to bring all of the New England colonies under firmer crown control.

Their relationship reached a new level of personal comfort when Sisko was injured during a battle with the Dominion and Kira did her best to care for him ; telling him a story and praying to the Prophets in process.

That guiding principle of the Hoover Administration fell to the siege guns of the New Deal ; ;

The state universities of Maine, New Hampshire, And Vermont are older and more `` respectable '' ; ;

Then he launches into an attack on the Tory ministers, whom he calls the `` New Converts '' ; ;

On returning to New York he had a job for several weeks ; ;

We found that a charitable society in New York had a long case-history of the two ; ;

Krim's typicality consists only in his New Yorker's view that New York is the world ; ;

'' Kenyon, Sewanee, and Hudson operated in an `` Anglo-Protestant New Critical chill '' ; ;

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

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The latter's real descendents were unable to take root in England ; ;

In September '76 Thomas Huxley, Darwin's famous disciple, came from England to speak in a crowded auditorium at the formal opening of the University ; ;

Stephen Gosson and Sir Philip Sidney from renaissance England ; ;

Dr. Johnson and William Hazlitt of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England ; ;

Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;

800 in Southern New England, we have 60 ; ;

Now, in 1961, the Catholic population of England is still quite small ( ten per cent, or 5 million ) ; ;

Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England: statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; ;

Whenever New England liberalism is reminded of the dramatic confrontation of Parker and the fraternity on January 23, 1843 -- while it may defend the privilege of Chandler Robbins to demand that Parker leave the Association, while it may plead that Dr. N. L. Frothingham had every warrant for stating, `` The difference between Trinitarians and Unitarians is a difference in Christianity ; ;

Each church has its own doctrine and liturgy, based in most cases on that of the Church of England ; and each church has its own legislative process and overall episcopal polity, under the leadership of a local primate.

By 1840 there were still only ten colonial bishops for the Church of England ; but even this small beginning greatly facilitated the growth of Anglicanism around the world.

England had a very strong batting side, with Wally Hammond contributing 905 runs at an average of 113. 12, and Hobbs, Sutcliffe and Patsy Hendren all scoring heavily ; the bowling was more than adequate, without being outstanding.

He batted unconvincingly and reached 28 when he hit a ball to Jack Ikin ; England believed it was a catch, but Bradman stood his ground, believing it to be a bump ball.

Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.

During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.