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Gault, Louisa Joanna, 1834-1908
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- Gault, M. H. (Matthew Hamilton), Mrs.
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1834-1908
History
Elizabeth Joanna Bourne Gault was born on April 8, 1834, in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of George Bourne (1801-1885), a Montreal merchant and brewer.
In 1854, she married Mathew Hamilton Gault (1822-1887), an Irish-Canadian financier and politician, the brother of Andrew Frederick Gault (1833–1903), the Cotton King of Canada. Mathew was the founder of Sun Life Financial at Montreal (1865) and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1878 election for the riding of Montreal West. They were the parents of sixteen children, eleven of whom lived to adulthood.
She died on April 11, 1908, in Montreal, Quebec.
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Related entity
Gault, M. H. (Matthew Hamilton), 1822-1887 (1822-1887)
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