Judicial Career
Hughes is listed as a witness to the signing of Treaty 5 at Norway House in 1875. In 1876 Hughes was appointed as a Senior Magistrate of the District of Keewatin and of the Northwest Territories in 1878. He also served as sheriff of the District of Saskatchewan from 1887 to 1899.
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