Zoé Laurier

Zoé, Lady Laurier
Lady Laurier in December 1911
Born
Zoé Lafontaine

(1841-06-26)June 26, 1841[1][2]
Montreal, Canada East
DiedNovember 1, 1921(1921-11-01) (aged 80)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada[3]
Resting placeNotre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
SpouseSir Wilfrid Laurier

Zoé, Lady Laurier (née Lafontaine; June 26, 1841 – November 1, 1921), was the wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada.

Biography

Portrait of Miss Zoë Lafontaine.
Madame Zoë Laurier, April 1878. By William James Topley in Ottawa.
Portrait of Lady Laurier

Zoé Lafontaine was born on 27 June 1841 to Godefroy-Napoleon Robert Lafontaine and Zoé Tessier dite Lavigne[4][Note 1] in Montreal. She was baptized on 28 June at the Notre-Dame Basilica.[5]

In Montreal, Lafontaine was educated at the School of the Bon Pasteur, and at the Convent of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, St. Vincent de Paul. She was one of the vice presidents on the formation of the National Council of Women of Canada and was honorary vice president of the Victorian Order of Nurses.

In 1861, Lafontaine first met her future husband, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, at the home of Dr. Séraphin Gauthier, where both were boarding. During this time she was a piano teacher to Gauthier's children.[4][6]

On May 13, 1868, the two were married in the Saint-Jacques Cathedral.[6] The couple lived at Arthabaskaville until they moved to Ottawa in 1896. Ultimately, their union was childless, to Laurier's dismay.

Lafontaine was one of the vice presidents on the formation of the National Council of Women and was honorary vice president of the Victorian Order of Nurses.[7]

On 17 February 1919, Laurier died. Lafontaine outlived her husband by more than two years. She died in Ottawa on November 1, 1921, at the age of 80.[5]

Her will bequeathed her Ottawa home to William Lyon Mackenzie King.[8]

Legacy

The Canadian Coast Guard ship Lady Laurier

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The genealogist Jean-Jacques Lefebvre is mistaken when he refers to her as Zoé Tessier.

References

  1. ^ "Dictionary – Definition of ZOE LAURIER". Websters-online-dictionary.org. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
  2. ^ "Automated Genealogy 1901 Census Transcription Project". Automatedgenealogy.com. May 10, 2007. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
  3. ^ The Morning Leader – Google News Archive Search
  4. ^ a b Macdonald & Laurier Days » Answers from Historians Christopher Moore and Réal Bélanger Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ a b Généalogie Zoe Lafontaine
  6. ^ a b Bélanger, Réal (1998). "Laurier, Sir Wilfrid (baptized Henry-Charles-Wilfrid)". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XIV (1911–1920) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  7. ^ Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1903). Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada. Toronto: Williams Briggs. p. 192.
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ Ministry of Environment – Graham-Laurier
  10. ^ ARCHIVED – USQUE AD MARE – The Lady Laurier – CCG Publications Archived August 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Home | DuVillage 1860 inc".
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