<P> Canada's founders, led by Sir John A. Macdonald wished their new nation to be called the Kingdom of Canada, to "fix the monarchical basis of the constitution ." The governor general at the time, the Viscount Monck, supported the move to designate Canada a kingdom; however, officials at the Colonial Office in London opposed this potentially "premature" and "pretentious" reference for a new country . They were also wary of antagonizing the United States, which had emerged from its Civil War as a formidable military power with unsettled grievances because British interests had sold ships to the Confederacy despite a blockade, and thus opposed the use of terms such as kingdom or empire to describe the new country . </P> <P> New Brunswick premier Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley suggested the term' Dominion', inspired by Psalm 72: 8 (from the King James Bible): "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth ." This is also echoed in Canada's motto: A Mari Usque Ad Mare (Latin for "from sea to sea"). </P> <P> The term had been used for centuries to refer to the lands held by a monarch, and had previously been adopted as titles for the Dominion of New England and the Dominion and Colony of Virginia . It continued to apply as a generic term for the major colonial possessions of the British Empire until well into the 20th century, although Tilley and the other Fathers of Confederation broadened the meaning of the word' dominion' to a "virtual synonym for sovereign state". Its adoption as a title for Canada in 1867 served the purpose of upholding the monarchist principle in Canada; in a letter to Queen Victoria, Lord Carnarvon stated: "The North American delegates are anxious that the United Provinces should be designated as the' Dominion of Canada .' It is a new title, but intended on their part as a tribute to the Monarchical principle which they earnestly desire to uphold .". </P> <P> Macdonald, however, bemoaned its adoption . In a letter to Lord Knutsford on the topic of the loss of the use of the word kingdom, Macdonald said: </P>

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