Early Career
Pouliot was born on June 6, 1923 in Quebec City to mathematician Adrien Pouliot and Laure Clark. Pouliot studied at Université Laval, graduating in 1945 with a degree in electrical engineering, specializing in electronics. He subsequently served as the superintendent of the Canadian Navy Laboratories until 1952. Prime Minister Louis St.-Laurent, impressed on hearing from his son that Pouliot had built Ottawa's only television receiver, recommended to the president of Famous Players Canadian Corporation that Pouliot be enlisted to aid the company in launching television stations in Canada. In 1952, Pouliot's broadcasting career began, as the executive engineer for Famous Players Canadian Corporation. With Famous Players, he studied the feasibility of operating cable TV systems across Canada, and, in 1954, he oversaw the design and launch of television stations CKCO-TV in Kitchener, Ontario, and CFCM-TV in Quebec City. CFCM-TV was Quebec's first private television station, owned by Télévision de Québec, a consortium of Famous Players and two AM radio stations, CHRC and CKCV. CFCM-TV broadcast both CBC and SRC programming.
Mr. Pouliot was also President of the flying club Tapis rouge and Quebec Aviation from 1968 to 1976.
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