Although Saint Germain was a member of the Royal Montreal Hockey Club, the Canadian ice hockey selection committee for the 1936 Winter Olympics chose to add him (along with teammates David Neville and Hugh Farquharson) to join the Portuguese Arthur Bearcats to represent Canada in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics. In 1987 he was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame as a member of that Olympic team and in 2002 he was made a member of the McGill Sports Hall of Fame.