lion at bay, and his reward he now enjoys in the shape of a large and assured fortune. Of such stuff are the men who fill great places, and who develop and make a country. To such men we of this later day owe much of the beauty and comfort that surround us, and to such we should look with admiration as models upon which to form rules of action in trying times. Legacy Beaudry Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles is named for him. The street is on the far west side of his 1874 Bellevue Terrace Tract property, west of Olive Street and north of Sixth Street. The Los Angeles State Normal School, a teachers college and predecessor to UCLA, was built on the tract, where the present-day Los Angeles Central Library is located. Beaudry was instrumental in helping found the towns of Alhambra and Pasadena. References External links History of Los Angeles County: Prudent Beaudry Other reading Antoine Bernard, Nos pionniers de l'Ouest, Presses de la survivance française de l'Université Laval, 1992 Joseph Tassé, Des Canadiens de l'Ouest, Compagnie d'imprimerie canadienne, 1878 Gaétan Frigon: Prudent Beaudry, and other pioneering Quebec businessmen, in Legacy. How french Canadians shaped North America. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2016; réimpr. 2019 p 59 – 83 (including sections Victor Beaudry, mining magnate and Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, patriote, and politician) (in French) Bâtisseurs d'Amérique: des canadiens français qui ont faite de l'histoire. ed. André Pratte, Jonathan Kay. La Presse, Montréal 2016, p 215 – 242 Mayors of Los Angeles Businesspeople from Los Angeles Los Angeles Common Council (1850–1889) members 19th-century American politicians 1818 births 1893 deaths People of the California Gold Rush Pre-Confederation Canadian emigrants to the United States American people of Québécois descent 19th century in Los Angeles Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery 19th-century American businesspeople