Beaudry was a French Canadian author, composer, pianist and record producer who played a determining role in the early initiatives of the recording industry in Québec. He worked for his father’s music store and then with the Starr Sales Company.

In 1915, the Columbia Gramophone Company of New York requested that Beaudry put them into contact with Québécois artists, hoping to obtain French language music for their New England francophone customers. Beaudry did and more than a dozen artists recorded with Columbia. He also established his initial contacts with the French market.

In 1917 Beaudry participated in setting up the Canadian Phonograph Supply Company to take advantage of the approaching end of the patents for lateral-cut recording. This prompted the Starr Piano Company of Richmond, Indiana which produced vertical-cut records to establish itself in Canada and to look at lateral-cut recording. The Starr Company of Canada was thus founded and Beaudry became vice president and general manager.

Beaudry wanted to increase the Canadian and francophone presence in a market that until then had been monopolized by American firms. He introduced the Starr series that presented thousands of recordings of popular French-speaking artists and obtained the distribution rights for several recordings by French music hall artists. Almost all the great names of his time recorded for Starr.

The American chansonnette experienced impressive growth after the First World War and to enable local artists to profit from Canadian and Québec audience's craze for this music, Beaudry recorded more than 150 of his French adaptations of American hits by Starr and His Master's Voice artists. He composed original songs of which more than 75 were recorded, a number of them big hits. As a producer, he was a pillar of the record industry during the 1920s, combining the folk style of artists like Ovila Légaré and American and French-inspired popular songs of such artists as Hector Pellerin.

He also established the Radio Music Publisher/Éditions Radio, a sheet music company set up in Starr's Montréal office. He died suddenly aged 50.

Honoré Beaugrand (baptized Marie-Louis-Honoré) was born on March 24, in St. Joseph de Lanoraie, Quebec.

He was a French-Canadian journalist, politician, author, and folklorist. He took a short course at the School of Military Instruction of Montreal. At the age of 17, he left Canada and he did not return until 13 years later. He went first to Mexico, where he fought in the Emperor Maximilian’s army. When the war ended in 1867, he followed the troops to France. He then lived in the United States and Mexico, working at various trades. By 1871 he was in Fall River, Massachusetts where he became a leading figure among the immigrants from Quebec, launching a Franco-American cause newspaper L’Écho du Canada. He returned to Montreal and launched first a satirical weekly, Le Farceur, and then, in 1879, La Patrie, a liberal daily that would remain in his hands until 1897. For the next 10 or 12 years, he concentrated on politics and on managing his newspaper. He was twice elected mayor of Montreal (1885–87). He spent the last 15 years of his life travelling (Mediterranean basin, the American southwest, and the Far East) and writing. He is most famous in Quebec for writing down the legend of the "Chasse-galerie", published in 1891 in "La chasse galerie: légendes canadiennes". Today, a street in Montreal and the Honoré-Beaugrand metro station are named in his honour.

He died on October 7, 1906, in Montreal, Quebec.