World's Oldest Woman Dies in Canada

The world's oldest woman and second oldest person died in Montreal, Canada yesterday, at the ripe old age of 115.

Julie Winnefred Bertrand passed away in here sleep at a Montreal nursing home where she's lived for the past 35 years. She was born on September 16, 1891, in the Quebec town of Coaticook, surviving through three centuries. She was only a month younger than Emiliano Mercado del Toro, the oldest living person in the world, and outlived her sister Anne Samson who died on November 29, 2004 as the oldest person in the world. Bertrand was also the second longest living person in Canadian history. In her youth she had been involved with former Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.