The official 1939 Canadian declaration of World War Two stated:

 

We do hereby Declare and Proclaim that a state of war with the German Reich exists and has existed in Our Dominion of Canada as and from the tenth of September 1939.

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Eventually as world events unfolded, Canada added a state of war with both Italy and Japan. Before peace reigned in August 1945, the total Canadian death toll was 42,042 men and women: