Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! | |
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 Church tower in Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! | |
 Coat of arms | |
| Motto(s): | |
 Location within Témiscouata RCM | |
  Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! Location in eastern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 47°40′N 68°59′W / 47.67°N 68.98°W[1] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| RCM | Témiscouata |
| Named | 1874 |
| Constituted | 14 July 1874 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Mélissa Lord |
| • Federal riding | Rimouski-Neigette— Témiscouata—Les Basques |
| • Prov. riding | Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata |
| Area | |
| • Total | 110.50 km2 (42.66 sq mi) |
| • Land | 112.23 km2 (43.33 sq mi) |
| There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources | |
| Population | |
| • 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 code(s) | 418 and 581 |
| Highways | Trans-Canada Highway |
| 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.[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.
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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]
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- ^ a b Jeffries, Stuart (29 April 2009). "The joy of exclamation marks!". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2009-09-08.