Canada Day (French: FĂȘte du Canada,), formerly known as Dominion Day (French: FĂȘte du Dominion), is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian
Confederation which occurred on July 1, 1867, with the passing of
the British North America Act, 1867, when the three separate colonies
of the United Canadas, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united
into a single dominion within the British Empire called Canada.
the holiday was renamed in 1982, the same year that the Canadian
constitution was patriated by the Canada Act, 1982, which severed
the vestiges of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United
Kingdom.
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the
Commonwealth,[4] is an international association of 56 member states,
the vast majority of which are former territories of the British
Empire from which it developed.
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