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I would like to add to the beginning of the article, "or the Dominion of Canada" as it is the official name of Canada (even if rarely used). Verbosetheorem (talk) 02:49, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Dominion of Canada was never the official name. The official name was Canada, which happened to be a dominion. Cf., Province of Ontario, Principality of Wales, State of New York. You could also compare the wording in the Canadian and Australian constitutions. TFD (talk) 02:16, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
CDN abbreviation
Regarding these edits: personally I don't find [1] to be a compelling source for the derivation of "CDN" to be from "Canada Dominion", particularly when the more obvious explanation is that it's a shorthand for "Canadian". What does everyone think? isaacl (talk) 15:50, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. It was always phrased "Dominion of Canada", not "Canada Dominion". I don't know that race-car guides are the most authoritative sources for etymology. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:33, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. As a Canadian, I've always seen "CDN" refer to "Canadian" and not "Canada Dominion". Specifically, CDN is shorthand for "Canadian" as an adjective (denoting somethings country of origin), and doesn't refer to Canadians (the group of people). smoltran (talk) 12:44, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Hey guys, Canadian here. I just read the whole “legal name is Canada” thing when you try to edit the page, and that’s bullshit. We are officially named the Dominion of Canada. I would like to rectify this issue very much, and ask that yanks who know nothing about Canada stop trying to make the argument that we aren’t officially the Dominion of Canada. Thank you! 2001:569:7D60:A100:8D79:31F:E0E9:2A94 (talk) 05:57, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The history organization doesn't make a lot of sense at the moment - the last paragraph of the first subsection covers interactions with Indigenous peoples up to pretty much the present day, but then the other subsections proceed largely chronologically. I think chronological rather than thematic organization makes more sense, but that requires us to put that content elsewhere. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:28, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is the normal layout Canadians will see when looking up the topic. An overview section with details in the time period sections. I think we should mimic academic resources people will use for research.
We could...but the article as a whole I find talks about Indigenous people as a have not part of society... just victims. Only in the indigenous and culture section do we talk in a positive light somewhat. Right now we have an Indigenous overview section with more details throughout the history sections about residential schools, displacement and legal status. If we could rewrite the indigenous section to be about chronological history per- colonization we could just let the other sections deal as they do with these topics. But I don't see how we can really write 3 or 4 more paragraphs about an undocumented history. Oral history traditions of most indigenous peoples in North America (my Nation as well) are more about myths and spirituality rarely about historical events.Moxy-01:13, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Audio removed?
In scrolling through the Spoken Wikipedia Project's articles list, it seems that there used to be a recording of this article, but it was removed for some reason. Why is this? The file is outdated by a bit, but it's still relevant enough to the topic at hand: File:En-Canada.oggiRDM02:24, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Heart (talk) 04:39, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Done ... ..July 1, 2023.Moxy-
14:11, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
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