CharlesCahan was a member of the Nova Scotia Legislature for Shelbourne, 1890-94; an unsuccessful candidate to the House of Commons for Shelbourne and Queen's, 1896, and for Cumberland, 1900; declined nomination for Montreal, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for Maisonneuve, P.Q., 1917; declined portfolio in Dominion Cabinet, 1896; was for several years Hon.
CharlesCahan was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1925 election as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the riding of St.
The Honourable CharlesHazlittCahan, died on August 15, 1944, and is buried at Riverside Cemetery, in Hebron, Nova Scotia.