Son of Joseph Napoléon Séguin and Marie-Anna Brabant, Paul-Édouard was born in L’Orignal, in 1918.

He enlisted in Montreal on the 29^th of September 1942 at the age of 23 and joined the Royal Canadian Army. His role as Sapper-Dispatch Rider took him to England, France, Belgium and Holland.

His younger brother, Isidore Arthur (1919-1985), also joined the Army quite possibly at the same time although no records were found proving this; however, Paul-Édouard remembered being overseas with his brother.

From his very brief conversations over the years about his duties in the army, the one thing Paul-Édouard recalled with pride was his motorbike and how he had spent many days on it, eating and even sleeping. 

As a dispatch rider, Paul-Édouard had to go in ahead of the bridge-building Royal Engineers, to bring back information and deliver messages between Units. 

Not long after landing in England on the first leg of his journey, Paul-Édouard met his future wife, Ruby Irene Pike, a nurse in training with the British Nursing Corps. Ruby was born in London, England, in 1924. As Units moved from place to place across Europe, it seems that fate helped their paths cross many times, until finally they were engaged in a village square in Belgium.

When the war was over, Paul-Edouard and Ruby were married on April 7^th, 1945, in a Congregational Church back in England. Their first son, Terry, was born in 1946, and soon after, the family came to Canada where Paul-Édouard was discharged from the army in July of that year. He then became a Guard at the L’Orignal Jail, later being promoted to Superintendent of the jail.

In 1975, a sudden heart attack forced him into early retirement, and in 1976, Paul-Édouard and Ruby decided to move back to England. Ruby passed away in 2001. A few years later, in 2007, Paul-Édouard returned to L’Orignal with his daughter Lynda. 

On September 2^nd, 2007, Jean Paul-Édouard Seguin passed away at 89 years of age. The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 472, Hawkesbury honoured him fittingly at the time of his death.