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What I do for pages that I want to mark as canonical is put the following code in my header.php file that is loaded on each page:
<link rel='canonical' href='<?php echo 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>'>
This loads the prefix https:// plus the domain www.example.com plus the page page.php resulting in <link ...
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Check your .htaccess for the redirections. I suppose it is an internal redirection made by WordPress.
You can try this in the .htaccess.
Make sure to have mod_rewrite activated in your server.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://www.example.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
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