Early Life
Louise Thérèse Blouin was born in Montreal, the youngest of six children. Having worked part-time as a book-keeper whilst at school, she went on to McGill University to study commerce, later switching to Concordia. She did not graduate but she did study at the Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School. In the early eighties, she met and married David Stewart, a member of the Canadian MacDonald tobacco family. The marriage was annulled within a year for unknown reasons.
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