Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
Parish municipality in Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[3] Its economy is mainly agricultural. It is located southeast of Rivière-du-Loup and west of Cabano along the Trans-Canada Highway (Route 185), about halfway to Edmundston in New Brunswick.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! | |
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Coordinates: 47°40′N 68°59′W[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
RCM | Témiscouata |
Named | 1874 |
Constituted | 14 July 1874 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Sonia Larrivée |
• Federal riding | Rimouski-Neigette— Témiscouata—Les Basques |
• Prov. riding | Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata |
Area | |
• Total | 110.50 km2 (42.66 sq mi) |
• Land | 112.31 km2 (43.36 sq mi) |
There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources | |
Population | |
• Total | 1,311 |
• Density | 11.7/km2 (30/sq mi) |
• Pop 2016–21 | 1.5% |
• Dwellings | 594 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways | Trans-Canada Highway |
Website | www |
The Commission de toponymie du Québec asserts that the parish's name refers to nearby Lake Témiscouata, the sense of haha here being an archaic French word for an impasse;[4] see Ha-ha. 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 abbot Louis-Nicolas Bernier.[1] Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! is the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name, and shares the distinction of having an exclamation point in its name with Westward Ho!, a village in Devon, in south-west England.[4]