Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! () 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.
History The parish began in 1860 as the site of a Catholic mission; it was named in 1874.
Haha is an archaic French word meaning "unexpected obstacle", referring in this case to a sharp bend in nearby Lake Témiscouata, at which voyageurs heading for the St. Lawrence River would have to leave the lake and make a long portage (see Chemin du Portage). Alternative explanations linking the name to various Amerindian words are regarded as fanciful.
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 one). In September 2017, the municipality received a Guinness World Record for the most exclamation marks in a town name.
Demographics 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 , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also Baie des Ha! Ha!, a bay on the St. Lawrence River Baie des Ha! Ha!, a bay on the Saguenay River Rivière Ha! Ha!, a tributary of the Saguenay Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone Hamilton, Ohio, a city that briefly added an exclamation point to its name List of parish municipalities in Quebec
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External links
:fr:Ha! Ha! , a disambiguation page in the French Wikipedia for "Ha! Ha!" place names in Quebec