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W. KAYE LAMB
Canadian Encyclopedia
01-01-2002
A Mari usque ad Mare
Author: W. KAYE LAMB
A Mari usque ad Mare
( "From Sea to Sea" ), Canada's motto, was derived from Psalm 72:8, which reads in Latin"Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terrae," and in the King James version,"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." Attention was first directed to the verse when, apparently at the suggestion of Samuel LeonardTILLEY , the term"dominion" was chosen to represent Canada as a whole when the British North America Act was drafted.
"From sea to sea" could not apply to ...
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Official Motto 1866
Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations;
John Robert Colombo;
254 words
...00-00-0000 Official Motto 1866 A mari usque ad mare. The official motto of the Dominion of Canada is the Latin phrase A mari usque ad mare. The official translations are From Sea to Sea...
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usque ad nauseam
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English;
Jennifer Speake and Mark LaFlaur;
7 words
...usque ad nauseam earlier variant of ad nauseam .
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Motto
Canadian Encyclopedia;
JOHN ROBERT COLOMBO;
203 words
......territories has a motto, but many municipalities have mottoes of their own. The motto of the Dominion of Canada is A MARI USQUE AD MARE which is officially translated "From Sea to Sea" and "D'un ocan l'autre." A listing of the provinces and their...
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Confederation
Canadian Encyclopedia;
P.B. WAITE;
787 words
......be necessary to convert romantic ideas of a nation a mari usque ad mare into political reality. A series of fortuitous...swept the board, and the glittering idea of a union a mari usque ad mare took over. The QUBEC CONFERENCE , called a month...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Hands across the ice.(new Arctic Council formed)
The Economist (US);
September 21, 1996 ;
633 words
......CANADIANS thought of their country stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific when they devised the Latin motto A mari usque ad mare-from sea to sea-for the nation's coat of arms. The third sea, the Arctic Ocean, was beyond their horizon. No longer...
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Bunhill: The murky tale of Sooty and his extra-mural activities
The Independent - London;
May 26, 1996 ;
David Bowen;
787 words
......Firkin chain he used to own. The Firkin motto, as I recall, is usque ad mortem bibendum, which means "Drink yourself to death" and...Butler. It has a label bearing a coat of arms and this motto: usque ad morte bibendum. Note the missing "m". I may be wrong (I was...
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ad nauseam
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English;
Jennifer Speake and Mark LaFlaur;
46 words
......x2018;to sickness’). To a disgusting or tiresome extent. The phrase was earlier (E17) introduced in the form ad nauseam usque (right up to sickness), and also occurs as usque ad nauseam , but these have been superseded by the shorter form.
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Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi, sive, Summorum Pontificum,...
The Catholic Historical Review;
January 1, 2006 ;
Trisco, Robert;
579 words
......Antistitum series, e documentis tabularii praesertim Vaticani collecta, digesta, edita, Volume IX: A Pontificatu Pii PP.X (1903) usque ad Pontificatum Benedicti PP.XV (1922). Edited by Zenon Pieta, O.F.M.Conv. (Padua: Edizioni Messaggero Padova. 2002. Pp. xvi...
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Chemputing logs off.(Canadian Chemical News discontinues its computer...
Canadian Chemical News;
November 1, 2005 ;
Silbert, Marvin D.;
447 words
......Some of the reviews were prepared in Edmonton, St. John's, Washington, and Dubai. The dialogue with readers was truly a Mare usque ad Mare and beyond to Singapore, Japan, and the U.K. It was quite a thrill one day in the middle of Montana, to be introduced...
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Hypolytrum pseudomapanioides (Cyperaceae), a new species from Cameroon
Kew Bulletin;
October 1, 2004 ;
Simpson, D A; Lye, K A; Cheek, M;
743 words
......Lye & D. A. Simpson affinis sed culmis 1 centralis (vs 2-3 lateralis), bractea inflorescentiae infima usque ad 50 cm longa (vs usque ad 8 cm longa) differt. Typus: Cameroon, South West Province, Kupe-Muanenguba division, Bakossi Mts, Kodmin...
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airspace
A Dictionary of Law;
ELIZABETH A. MARTIN;
239 words
......law, the ownership of land includes ownership of the airspace above it, by application of the maxim cujus est solum ejus est usque ad coelum (whose is the soil, his it is even to heaven); outer space, however, is not considered to be subject to ownership. In...
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Editorial - Sea shell game
Winnipeg Free Press;
July 11, 2006 ;
394 words
...THE campaign to change Canada's national motto -- A Mari usque ad Mare, or from sea to sea, as we sometimes say in English -- has picked up some steam since federal Liberal Leader Bill Graham raised...
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Chemputing a mari usque ad mare. (comparing Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet...
Canadian Chemical News;
September 1, 1991 ;
Silbert, Marvin;
787 words
...I recently had the experience of taking one of my prize Lotus spreadsheets across Canada. This turns out to be much more difficult than I would have ever expected. In Alberta, I learned that some people like spreadsheets other than Lotus. Symphony won't look at the graphs stored within Lotus; Excel
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