Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! | |
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Aerial view of Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! | |
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Location within Témiscouata RCM | |
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! Location in eastern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 47°40′13″N 68°58′54″W / 47.6703°N 68.9817°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| RCM | Témiscouata |
| Named | 1874 |
| Constituted | 14 July 1874 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Mélissa Lord |
| • Federal riding | Côte-du-Sud—Rivière-du-Loup—Kataskomiq—Témiscouata |
| • Prov. riding | Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata |
| Area | |
• Total | 112.23 km2 (43.33 sq mi) |
| • Land | 110.08 km2 (42.50 sq mi) |
| The provincial and federal governments disagree on the total area; the latter makes no claim regarding the land area. | |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 1,311 |
| • Density | 11.7/km2 (30/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 | 1.5% |
| • Dwellings | 594 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 418 and 581 |
| Highways | A-85 (TCH) |
| Website | www |
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lwi dy a a]) is a parish municipality in the Témiscouata Regional County Municipality of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. The population is 1,311 as of 2021. Its economy is mainly agricultural. It is located southeast of Rivière-du-Loup and west of Cabano along the Trans-Canada Highway (A-85), about halfway to Edmundston in New Brunswick.
The Commission de toponymie du Québec asserts that the parish's name refers to nearby Lake Témiscouata, the sense of ha-ha here being an archaic French word for an impasse. The Louis may refer to Louis Marquis, one of the first colonists of the region, or Louis-Antoine Proulx, vicar of Rivière-du-Loup, or perhaps the abbé Louis-Nicolas Bernier.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! is the only town in the world with two exclamation marks in its name. (Westward Ho!, in Devon, England has a single exclamation mark in its name.) In September 2017, the municipality established a Guinness World Record for the most exclamation marks in a town name.