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. 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.

History

The parish began in 1860 as the site of a Catholic mission; it was named in 1874.

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 Saint Lawrence River in the Côte-Nord region.
  • Baie des Ha! Ha!: A bay on the Saguenay River in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region.
  • Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone
  • Hamilton, Ohio, United States: A city that briefly added an exclamation point to its name
  • List of parish municipalities in Quebec
  • Rivière Ha! Ha!: A river in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.
  • Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, United States; a town that renamed itself after a radio show
  • Westward Ho!, a village in Devon, England

References

  • :fr:Ha! Ha! , a disambiguation page in the French Wikipedia for "Ha! Ha!" place names in Quebec