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Usage of the phrase Dominion of Canada was employed as the country's name after 1867, predating the general use of the term dominion as applied to the other autonomous regions of the British Empire after 1907.
T he British North America Act was an act of the British Parliament passed on July 1, 1867. It created the Dominion of Canada and set out its constitution. The Act itself stayed in London, England until it was brought home to Canada, or patriated, by the Constitution Act of 1982.