In July 1982, a private member’s bill to change the name to Canada Day was proposed by Vaudreuil MP Hal Herbert. In the decades following the Second World War, several private members’ and government-sponsored bills were proposed to change the name of Dominion Day, but none succeeded. A more successful effort, sponsored by Senator Robert Carrall of British Columbia, passed through Parliament in 1879, making Dominion Day a public holiday. In May 1869, a bill to make Dominion Day a public holiday was debated in the House of Commons, but it was withdrawn after several members of Parliament voiced objections. While several communities did organize celebrations on this day, the legal status of Dominion Day as a public holiday was uncertain. Of the anniversary of Confederation on 1 July 1868. In June 1868, Governor General Charles Stanley Monck called for a celebration The British North America Act came into effect on 1 July 1867, creating the country of Canada with its initial four provinces of Ontario,
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