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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Many Japanese immigrants to Canada during this period worked in business, the service sector and skilled trades. In the 2006 census, 21,615 persons declared that they were immigrants from Japan; of these almost two-thirds, 14,690, were women seeking social freedoms and career opportunities denied them in Japan.