Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! | |
Native Name Lang: | fr |
Settlement Type: | Parish municipality |
Motto: | French: Solidaire dans le labeur (French) "Solidarity in work" |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Eastern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in eastern Quebec |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Témiscouata |
Established Title: | Named |
Established Date: | 1874 |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | 14 July 1874 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Mélissa Lord |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Rimouski-Neigette— Témiscouata—Les Basques |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata |
Area Total Km2: | 110.50 |
Area Land Km2: | 112.23 |
Area Note: | There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 1311 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 11.7 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
Population Blank1: | 1.5% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 594 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G0L 3S0 |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Trans-Canada Highway |
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! (in French pronounced as /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.[1] 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.
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;[2] 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. 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.[2]
The parish began in 1860 as the site of a Catholic mission; it was named in 1874.[3]
In September 2017, the municipality established a Guinness World Record for the "Most exclamation marks in a town name".[4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 112.23km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]