Early life (1841-1871)

Childhood

The second child of Carolus Laurier and Marcelle Martineau, Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier was born in Saint-Lin, Canada East (modern-day Saint-Lin-Laurentides, Quebec), on November 20, 1841. He was a sixth-generation French Canadian, with partial Acadian ancestry through his mother. His ancestor François Cottineau, dit Champlaurier, came

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