Félix Poitras (1930-19..) (ph_3691)

Twenty-seventh child and last of the family of Frédérick Poitras and Alice Lévesque of Saint-André of Madawaska, Félix was a student at the boys boarding school of Saint-Basile from 1936 to 1940. He studied at the Sacred Heart College in Bathurst then at the Grand Seminary of Montreal until 1951. After his theology studies in Holy Heart Seminary in Halifax, he was ordained priest in the parish of Notre-Dame de Lourdes. Father Poitras was parish priest in Saint-Martin, Saint-Jacques and Sainte-Anne. Photo taken around 1951.