Everyone let s not try and make things so complicated I suspect that we are presenting our interpretations of what dominion means Let us stick to the barest fact It was a self governing British colony G2 what is a semi independent self governing territory Self governing territory is enough surely But my objection was not to your definition but to your idea that Canada is some kind of model dominion The six colonies I referred to were already self governing in the sense Canada was well before 1867 They had their own elected legislatures run according to Westminster principles