Along with his parents and older brother Max, the family moved from the Lower East side to the cleaner air of Toronto.
He practised criminal law and entered politics at a time when restrictive practices posed numerous challenges and he changed his name from Gold to the more Anglo-Saxon Gould.
[1] Stephen is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, an associate professor, and director of the Educational Leadership PhD program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Gould was a revered member of the community, a tireless fighter for the "little man" and appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC).
He ran for the Liberal party in the provincial St. Patrick electoral district in the June 4, 1945 Ontario general election, placing second to Progressive Conservative Kelso Roberts.
[1] George Ben, the Liberal Party candidate who ran to succeed him, won Gould's seat in a by-election, and became that riding's last MPP, as Bracondale was abolished and redistributed into two adjacent electoral districts for the 1967 Ontario general election.