Career
He wrote music criticism for the Quebec City newspaper L"Événement from 1922-1932. He then worked as a reporter stationed at the National Assembly of Quebec for the next four decades. His father was the organist Joseph-Arthur Bernier and he was the brother of pianist Gabrielle Bernier and composer and keyboardist Conrad Bernier.
He began his musical training with his father as a child.
He studied the piano with his father and later was a pupil of Henri Gagnon on that instrument. From 1912-1920 he studied the cello with J.-Alexandre Gilbert and Paul Robitaille.
He played with the orchestra for about a decade but abandoned his professional music career in favour of his work as a writer In 1978 he wrote several articles about the Quebec Symphony Orchestra in the year of the ensemble"s 75th anniversary for Le Mois à Québec.
Bernier died in Quebec City 2 December 1990.