<Li> Victorialand--in honour of Queen Victoria </Li> <P> Walter Bagehot of The Economist newspaper in London argued that the new nation should be called' Northland' or' Anglia' instead of Canada . On these names, the statesman Thomas D'Arcy McGee commented, "Now I would ask any honourable member of the House how he would feel if he woke up some fine morning and found himself, instead of a Canadian, a Tuponian or a Hochelegander?". </P> <P> During the Charlottetown Conference of 1864, John A. Macdonald, who later became the first Prime Minister of Canada, talked of "founding a great British monarchy", in connection with the British Empire . He advocated, in the fourth Canadian draft of the British North America Act, the name "Kingdom of Canada," in the text is said: </P> <P> The word' Parliament' shall mean the Legislature or Parliament of the Kingdom of Canada . The word' Kingdom' shall mean and comprehend the United Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick . The words' Privy Council' shall mean such persons as may from time to time be appointed, by the Governor General, and sworn to aid and advise in the Government of the Kingdom . </P>

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