> \*Update 9/25/19: This post has been updated to clarify that Canada entered Wo...

wolfgang42 · on Nov 10, 2019

They didn’t get the date wrong, just poorly phrased it. Here's the original sentence (from the Internet Archive):

> On February 24, 1942, after Canada’s entrance into World War Two...

And after the correction:

> On February 24, 1942, several years after Canada’s entrance into World War Two...

mattkrause · on Nov 10, 2019

Canada also declared war on Japan in December of 1941, which makes the 1942 date a bit more salient.