List of Canadian supercentenarians
Wikimedia list of persons
This article lists Canadian supercentenarians (people from Canada who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The oldest verified Canadian person ever was Marie-Louise Meilleur, who died in 1998 aged 117 years, 230 days. As of 25 September 2026, the oldest living Canadian person is Katherine Baumchen, who was born in Saskatchewan on 10 February 1915 but currently resides in the United States, aged 111 years, 227 days. The oldest known living person in Canada is Marie Rosa, born 17 September 1915, aged 111 years, 8 days.
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Julie Winnefred Bertrand
Julie Winnefred Bertrand (16 September 1891 – 18 January 2007) was the oldest woman and the second-oldest living person in the world behind Emiliano Mercado del Toro of Puerto Rico at the time of her death.
Bertrand was born in the Quebec mill town of Coaticook to her parents Napoleon Bertrand and Julia Mullins, and was the eldest out of six siblings. She spent her working career as a clothes buyer and saleswoman in her hometown. And although Bertrand never married, it was speculated that she was fairly close with Louis St. Laurent, who would eventually become the 12th prime minister of Canada.
She resided at a longterm care facility in Montreal throughout the last 35 years of her life.
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