Leonard Tilley: The Father of Confederation Who Proposed Calling Canada a ‘Dominion’

Leonard Tilley: The Father of Confederation Who Proposed Calling Canada a ‘Dominion’

Commentary Canada’s beautiful national motto, “A Mari Usque ad Mare,” from Psalm 72:8, “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea” (Authorized Version) was adopted in 1921. But it was first identified in 1866 by Leonard “Lennie” Tilley, chief delegate from New Brunswick to the Confederation conferences, when he proposed the name of “Dominion” for the united provinces. An evangelical Anglican and a strict temperance man, Tilley was a descendant…