André Boudreau was born in 1945 at Nigadoo, New Brunswick, to Liguori Boudreau and Adélina Haché. He studied at the Salésiens de Don Bosco and at Bathurst College, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at Moncton University in 1969.

In New Brunswick, he worked for the Conseil régional d’aménagement du Nord-Est du Nouveau Brunswick and for the Compagnie des jeunes Canadiens, in Bathurst, before leaving for Alberta in 1980, where he managed his own developing company, André Construction Ltd.

In Alberta, he became very involved in the Francophone community, working first for the Association des scouts et guides de l’Alberta, then initiating, developing and managing a number of projects. He was founder or co-founder of the Centre culturel Marie-Anne Gaboury, the Société educative de l’Alberta (1987), the Société éducative du Nouveau-Brunswick (1992), the Société accadienne de l’Alberta (1987), Congrès mondial Acadien (Acadian World Congres), Destinations Canada Ouest, and the Société culturelle Mamowapik. He was also on the executive board for Tours Franco-Fun, Caravane de Retrouvailles, Association des gens d’affaires d’Edmonton, Association canadienne-française de l’Alberta, régionale d’Edmonton, Comité de développement économique de l’Alberta, Comité de développement touristique de l’Alberta, l’Unithéâtre.

The first Acadian World Congress, of which he was founder and president, was selected by UNESCO as an activity of the World Decade for Cultural Development.

For his community involvement, André Boudreau was awarded the Prix d’Excellence Eugène Trottier of the Association canadienne-française de l’Alberta (1994), the Prix Séraphin-Marion of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montreal (1996), and was also named Member of the Order of Canada (2000).

Boudreau was also an amateur photographer, winning the first prize at the Alberta Visual Arts competition in 1992.

André Boudreau died in 2005 in Edmonton. A sculpture in his name was inaugurated in Nigadoo in 2009.