The following document is the Emancipation Proclamation, made by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
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The first immigrants to Canada came from England and France. They were called settlers. They lived in small groups called colonies. Many of them were not used to farming so the Aboriginal People showed them how to grow food and how to travel in this new country, so rough compared to the lands they had left.