Upon Confederation in 1867, ''Canada'' was adopted as the legal name for the new country at the London Conference, and the word ''Dominion'' was conferred as the country's title. By the 1950s, the term Dominion of Canada was no longer used by the United Kingdom, which considered Canada a "Realm of the Commonwealth". The government of Louis St. Laurent ended the practice of using ''Dominion'' in the statutes of Canada in 1951.