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.
Corrinne is the owner of Esther Gould's Finest, a Toronto business based on her mother's mandelbread recipe.
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.