Early Education

The Franco-American School located on Pawtucket St. at the Fletcher St. intersection started out as a Franco-American orphanage for boys and girls with distressed family histories (poverty, sickness, no past English training, etc.) and nowhere else to go.

Originally, the institution was called, “L’orphelinat Saint-Joseph”, where according to my mother when I was a child in the 1950s, all the Bolduc kids of the family just might end up if our family finances collapsed again.

For me, I saw this comment as a threat that the worst was yet to come if we failed as a family unit to survive under our own steam. This even the case when my dad was still alive, and barely making it ends meet with one full-time job and three part-time