Alfred Montmarquette (6 April 1871 - 24 May 1944) was a Canadian folksong composer and accordionist.
Montmarquette was born in New York on 6 April 1871, and taught himself the accordion from the age of twelve, and had mastered it while still an adolescent.
[1][2] Unable to earn a living as a professional musician, he worked as a mason.
[3][4] He moved to Montreal in the 1920s, and was over fifty years old when Conrad Gauthier's Veillées du bon vieux temps made him well known.
[2] He died in an insane asylum in Montréal on 24 May 1944.