a statutory holiday celebrated annually on July 1 in commemoration of the creation of the Dominion of Canada, July 1, 1867.
See also: Dominion Day
- 1956  For the event we celebrate on July 1, Dominion Day, or Canada Day as some prefer to call it, is the birth of the Canadian constitution.
- 1963  The bill he was referring to was a private member's bill to change Dominion Day to Canada Day. It was passed by the Commons in 1946.