When I was thirteen years old, I visited an exhibition with my father on St. Helen's Island, where I discovered binding and woodworking. In fact, Louis-Philippe Beaudoin and Jean-Marie Gauvreau, both Canadian grant-holders returning from Europe, introduced me to their respective crafts. Walking out of this exhibition, I knew I would later become a bookbinder or a woodworker.

As chance would have it, in 1943 I was registered and accepted at a school which had existed for only two years, the School of Graphic Arts. The first three years were divided between some theoretical and practical courses, History of the Art of the Book, Chemistry of Paper, Sociology, Costing and Design; the other part consisted of workshops. To my great surprise, a few years later I was in charge of the course Introduction to Binding.

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