Quebec), the Province of New Brunswick, and the Province of Nova Scotia, a delegate from either Nova Scotia or New Brunswick proposed the name Canada in February 1867, and it was unanimously accepted by the other delegates. There appears to have been little discussion, though other names were suggested. Other proposed names While the provinces' delegates spent little time, if any, in settling on Canada as the name for the new country, others proposed a variety of other names: Anglia – the medieval Latin name for England Albionoria – 'Albion of the north' Borealia – from borealis, the Latin word for 'northern'; compare with Australia Cabotia – in honour of Italian explorer John Cabot, who explored the eastern coast of Canada for England Colonia Efisga – an acronym of English, French, Irish, Scottish, German, Aboriginal Hochelaga – an old name for Montreal Laurentia Mesopelagia – 'land between the seas' New Albion Norland Superior Tupona – acronym for The United Provinces of North America Transatlantica Ursalia – 'place of bears' Vesperia – 'land of the evening star' Victorialand – in honour of Queen Victoria 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?". Kingdom and Dominion Working towards the Confederation of Canada, Canada's founders deliberated on the official title for their new country, primarily between the "Kingdom of Canada" or the "Dominion of Canada." In J. S. Ewart's two volume work, The Kingdom Papers, it is noted that the following names were considered for the union of British North America: "The United Colony of Canada", "the United Provinces of Canada", and "the Federated Provinces of Canada". Ewart was also an ardent advocate for the formation of "the Republic of Canada", a position which was rarely expressed in those times. Kingdom of Canada 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: