Dominion of Canada

About that time, I was asked by the United Nations to confirm the official long and short names of our country. I assumed the long title was Dominion of Canada, and the short was simply Canada. I was wrong. External Affairs declared that Canada alone was official as both the long and the short name. […] Historians trace the origin of the title Dominion of Canada in the constitution to Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, one of the Fathers of Confederation, from New Brunswick.