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Canada Gazette/Volume LXXIII/No. 12/Proclamation, September 10, 1939

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Canada Gazette, Vol. LXXIII, No. 12 (1939)
Proclamation, September 10, 1939 by George VI

Declaration of a state of war with the German Reich

1226348Canada Gazette, Vol. LXXIII, No. 12 — Proclamation, September 10, 19391939George VI
TWEEDSMUIR
[L.S.]

CANADA

GEORGE THE SIXTH, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas KING, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.

To All To Whom these Presents shall come or whom the same may in anywise concern,

Greeting;

A PROCLAMATION

ERNEST LAPOINTE,
Attorney General,
Canada.

WHEREAS by and with the advice and consent of Our Privy Council for Canada We have signified Our Approval of the issue of a Proclamation in the Canada Gazette declaring that a State of War with the German Reich exists and has existed in Our Dominion of Canada as and from the tenth day of September, 1939;

Now Therefore 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 day of September, 1939.

Of All Which Our Loving Subjects and all others whom these Presents may concern are hereby required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.

In Testimony Whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. Witness: Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved John, Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, a Member of Our Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of Our Royal Victorian Order, Member of Our Order of the Companions of Honour, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Our Dominion of Canada.
At Our Government House, in Our City of Ottawa, this tenth day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine and in the Third year of Our Reign.

By Command,

W.L. MACKENZIE KING,
Prime Minister of Canada.