He studied at the Collège de Saint-Roch which had been recently founded by Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis and one of his teachers was a future archbishop of the Archdiocese of Quebec, Charles-François Baillargeon.
At the Collège de Saint-Roch, he studied under the guidance of Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis, who founded it. One of his instructors, Charles-François Baillargeon, would later become an archbishop in the Archdiocese of Quebec.