Rooted since 1946

Lucien J. Boulet was born in 1908 in Dunrea, Manitoba. The third of 15 children, he grew up in a loving but not very wealthy family. In 1921, at the age of 12, his father decided to send him to school rather than keep him on the farm. He did his classical studies at the Jesuit College of St. Boniface until 1929. His good academic results encouraged him to pursue his higher education in Quebec, at the Agricultural Institute of the University of Montreal (B.Sc. A. 1933) and at McDonald College (M. Sc. 1937, McGill). He was awarded a Governor General's Medal and a scholarship to further his research and decided to go to Wales to pursue his doctorate; he was 27 years old. He returned from Wales at the end of 1939 with his PH. D in agronomy completed (Philosophia Doctor, Wales University, 1940).

Upon his return, Lucien works at the Centre de recherches en agronomie de La Pocatière. He met Marie-Paule Dionne, from Saint-Pacôme de Kamouraska, whom he married in 1941. Four children were born from this union as well as five grandchildren. 

Lucien's entire professional life is a testament to his leadership, scientific mind and creativity. He distinguished himself early on in Quebec for his excellence in landscaping, horticultural production and turf cultivation, creating several prosperous businesses over the course of some forty years. A man very involved in his community, he was active in various social and patriotic causes, notably as president of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Québec and within the Conseil de la vie française en Amérique. He founded the Agendas patriotiques, which later became Les Agendas Champlain, to support French Canadian mutual aid.