Colonialism
JULY 1ST IS CELEBRATED as a national holiday, known colloquially as Canada Day, but officially designated Dominion Day. Whether you’ll be puttering about the house, sweating outside in the garden, or taking time off work to kick back and relax, I would urge you to take a few minutes out of the day to reflect upon the meaning of this word ‘dominion’. The oldest ancestor of this word is the Greek ‘domos’, which simply means ‘house’ or ‘home’. The first derivation of the word was the addition of the suffix ‘nus’, which denotes the relationship of ownership, the possession of property, resulting in the Latin ‘dominus’, meaning ‘lord’ or ‘master’. So ‘dominion’ means domination: command, control, power, privilege.
