Ulrick Chérubin
Ulrick Chérubin | |
|---|---|
| File:Ulrick Chérubin-09-08-2014-4.JPG Chérubin during an event associated to Amos' centennial celebration | |
| Mayor of Amos | |
| In office 2002 – September 25, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Murielle Angers-Turpin |
| Succeeded by | Donald Blanchet |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 24, 1943 |
| Died | September 25, 2014 (aged 70) |
| Spouse | Immacula Morriset[1] |
| Profession | Teacher |
Ulrick Chérubin (December 24, 1943 – September 25, 2014) was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Amos, Quebec, from 2002 until his death in 2014.[2] He was one of the first Black Canadians to be elected a mayor in Quebec.[3][4]
Early life
[edit | edit source]The youngest of five children, Chérubin was born in Jacmel, Haiti, in 1943.[5] He was educated in Haiti, where he was a childhood friend and classmate of Michel Adrien, who would later become mayor of Mont-Laurier, Quebec.[3]
Fleeing the dictatorship regime of François Duvalier, Chérubin left Haiti while he was still studying mathematics in a Port-au-Prince university.[6] He moved to Canada in 1970 to study education at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières,[7] and subsequently taught religion in Cap-de-la-Madeleine.[7] In 1971, he married Immacula Morriset, a nurse also originally from Haiti.
Chérubin continued to teach in 1973, and also studied administration and English as a Second Language teaching at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue.[3] He moved to Amos in 1974.
Political career
[edit | edit source]Chérubin was first elected as a municipal councillor in Amos in 1994, winning his seat with a five-hundred vote majority.[7] After being re-elected unopposed as a councillor in 1998, Chérubin was elected to the position of mayor of Amos. In 2004, he was awarded the Jackie Robinson Award, in honour of his status as a pioneering Black Canadian, by the Montreal Association of Black Business Persons and Professionals.[8]
In 2009, city councillors Charles Yancey and Chuck Turner of Boston, Massachusetts, sponsored a motion declaring January 2, 2010, to be Ulrick Chérubin Day in the City of Boston, when he visited the city.[1]
Chérubin was most recently re-elected in 2013, winning his fourth consecutive term, winning 73% of the vote in a victory over Amos municipal councillor Éric Mathieu.[9]
On November 10, 2013, Chérubin appeared on Le Banquier, the Quebec version of Deal or No Deal, where he won a total of $222,500. Chérubin, who was selected to take part in the program out of a pool of eight thousand initial applicants, appeared in order to promote and raise funds for the centennial celebration of the town of Amos.[10]
Death
[edit | edit source]On September 25, 2014, Chérubin died in Amos, aged 70 from cardiac failure.[2][11]
References
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- ^ "Ulrick Cherubin, one of Canada's first black mayors, dead at 70". Sun News Network, September 25, 2014.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Official Mayoral webpage (in French) Archived August 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
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