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Zoé, Lady Laurier (née Lafontaine; June 26, 1841 – November 1, 1921), was the wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada.
- November 1, 1921 (aged 80), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Zoé, the Love of His Life. Wilfrid Laurier met Zoé Lafontaine while studying and living at the home of Dr. Gauthier in Montréal. She was a boarder and gave piano lessons to the doctor’s children to help her family financially.
Wilfrid Laurier married Zoé Lafontaine in Montreal on May 13, 1868. She was the daughter of G.N.R. Lafontaine and his first wife, Zoé Tessier known as Zoé Lavigne. Laurier's wife Zoé was born in Montreal and educated there at the School of the Bon Pasteur, and at the Convent of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, St. Vincent de Paul ...
- 1869–1878
- Liberal
- Laurier Liberal (1917–1919)
10. Nov. 2016 · He had married Zoé Lafontaine in 1868, whom he had met in Montreal. But around 1874, he met Émilie Barthe, who became the wife of his associate Joseph Lavergne. Although Zoé was a good wife for Laurier, she didn’t have—how would I put it?—the stature of Émilie. Like Laurier, Émilie loved literature, was very cultured, and ...
A gifted and wildly popular Prime Minister, Laurier is equally devoted to his quiet, faithful wife Zoë and his ambitious, charismatic lover Émilie Lavergne. The story is told through the eyes of these remarkably realized women – friends who are also rivals for Laurier’s heart.
Portrait of Widow Laurier (artist unknown), 1906. © National Archives of Canada / c-118362. When Zoé Laurier died in 1921, it was discovered that she had bequeathed her Ottawa home to William Lyon Mackenzie King, her husband's successor as leader of the Liberal party.
Lady Zoé Laurier, née Lafontaine, (1841-1921), wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, was a founding member of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa in 1898.
