Have you ever seen the on-line Ponteix history books? The Bedard bio is in volume 1.
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=6230 and volume 2.
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=6231 Just do a Bedard or Ouelette search in volume 1 and click on the page numbers that show up. Not sure if you have others of interest there so gave you both. Butch