"The Joys of Québec" (in French "Les Joies de Québec" is a French-Canadian reel or polka in A Major. The parts are played AA'BB' (Brody) or AA'BB'C (Phillips). The reel is the composition of influential Saint-Sauveur, Québec, fiddler and traveling salesman Fortunat Malouin (1870-1935), who recorded in the 1920's for the Starr and Columbia labels. A third section, which Jos Bouchard (1905-1979) included in his 1938 recording, is rarely played. Malouin recorded the reel in New York City in 1928 for Columbia Records (backed with another of his compositions, "Reel de Rimouski"). The melody was included in Montreal musician, publisher, and music dealer A.J. Boucher's (1869-1927) Le Repertoire du Violonneux (1933), a collection of Quebecois tunes that included versions of all eight tunes that Malouin recorded - all under different titles. "Les Joyeuses Québecoises" appears as "Variations sur un air canadien". It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983), Miller & Perron's Fiddlecase Book of 101 Polkas (1978) and Phillips's Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994). It was recorded by Joe Cormier (Cape Breton/Mass.) on Masters of the Folk Violin (1989), Joseph Allard (1938)(78 RPM), Fortunat Malouin (1928)(78 RPM), Yankee Ingenuity on Kitchen Junket (1977) and Jerry Rivers on 30 Fiddler's Greatest Hits.