Everyone lets 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 selfgoverning British colonyG what is a semiindependent selfgoverning territory Selfgoverning 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 selfgoverning in the sense Canada was well before  They had their own elected legislatures run according to Westminster principles