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Hubert-Charron Cabana

Canadian lawyer (1838–1901)

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Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5927099 ↗
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Hubert-Charron Cabana (14 June 1838 – 9 June 1901) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician, and office holder.

Life

Born in Verchères, Lower Canada, Cabana was one of the first French-Canadian lawyers in Sherbrooke. He founded the first French-language newspaper in that city, called Le Pionnier de Sherbrooke, and became its first francophone mayor.

He was appointed consulting counsel on 26 June 1883 and elected Bâtonnierof Saint-François district in May 1884.

Death

He died in Sherbrooke on June 9, 1901.

References

Further reading

Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean, eds. (1994). "Hubert-Charron Cabana". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hubert-Charron Cabana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.