Ulrick Chérubin Explained

Ulrick Chérubin
Office:Mayor of Amos, Quebec
Term Start:2002
Term End:September 25, 2014
Predecessor:Murielle Angers-Turpin
Successor:Donald Blanchet
Birth Date:24 December 1943
Birth Place:Jacmel, Haiti
Death Place:Amos, Quebec, Canada
Profession:Teacher
Spouse:Immacula Morriset

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.[1] He was one of the first Black Canadians to be elected a mayor in Quebec. Like other black mayors in Quebec history, Chérubin led a municipality which is virtually entirely white and Québécois.[2]

Early life

The youngest of five children, Chérubin was born in Jacmel, Haiti, in 1943.[3] 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.

Fleeing the dictatorship regime of François Duvalier, Chérubin left Haiti while he was still studying mathematics in a Port-au-Prince university.[4] He moved to Canada in 1970 to study education at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières,[5] and subsequently taught religion in Cap-de-la-Madeleine. 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. He moved to Amos in 1974.

Political career

Chérubin was first elected as a municipal councillor in Amos in 1994, winning his seat with a five-hundred vote majority. 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.[6]

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.[7]

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.[8]

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.[9]

Death

On September 25, 2014, Chérubin died in Amos, aged 70 from cardiac failure.[1] [10]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Le maire d'Amos, Ulrick Chérubin, est mort. 25 September 2014. Radio-Canada. 25 September 2014.
  2. News: Blatchford. Andy. How two Haitian friends became Quebec mayors. 24 April 2014. The Globe and Mail. 31 March 2013.
  3. News: Ulrick Chérubin. 24 April 2014. Cape Breton Post. 7 October 2013. French.
  4. Web site: Politique Actualités L'Écho Abitibien et Le Citoyen de la Vallée de l'or et Le Citoyen de l'Harricana . www.lechoabitibien.ca . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150524002507/http://www.lechoabitibien.ca/actualites/politique.html . 2015-05-24.
  5. Book: Pierre, Samuel. Ces Québécois venus d'Haïti. 2007. Presses inter Polytechnique. 978-2553014116. 451–453. French.
  6. "Three honoured with Jackie Robinson Awards". The Gazette, May 9, 2004.
  7. Web site: Honorable Ulrick Chérubin. Office of the City Clerk, Boston, Massachusetts. 24 April 2014.
  8. News: Ulrick Chérubin récolte un quatrième mandat à la mairie d'Amos. 24 April 2014. Radio-Canada. 3 November 2013. French.
  9. News: Guindon. Martin. Ulrick Chérubin gagne 222 500 $ au Banquier. 24 April 2014. Abitibi Express. 10 November 2013. French.
  10. http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2014/09/20140925-173306.html "Ulrick Cherubin, one of Canada's first black mayors, dead at 70"