The Baie des Ha! Ha! (English: Ha! Ha! Bay) is located in the municipality of
Gros-Mécatina, in the
Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality
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, on the north shore of
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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, in the administrative region of
Côte-Nord
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The region runs along the St. Lawrence River and then the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ...
in eastern
Quebec
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,
Canada
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.
Geography
The Baie des Ha! Ha! is located on the north side of the village of
La Tabatière
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La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
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*La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
*"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smit ...
and
Baie-Rouge.
The entrance to the Baie des Ha! Ha! is bordered by the Red, Saint-Esprit, Ronde, Fecteau (largest) and Robertson Islets. Inside the bay, the main islands are: Jacobs and Woody. The Baie des Ha! Ha! is interconnected in its periphery with secondary and point bays (clockwise from the mouth of the bay): Fish Harbor, Pointe Seal, Terre Bay, Cap High, Anse Bastien, Anse Guillemette, Pointe du Sorcier, Pointe de la Rivière,
Véco River
The Véco River (, ) is a salmon river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, that empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It has been dammed to supply a hydroelectric power plant. The shoreline around the mouth of the river is protected as ...
, Baie Shoal, Baie Betty and Pointe Juniper (northeast shore).
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The "Baie des Ha! Ha!" is mainly supplied by the
Véco River
The Véco River (, ) is a salmon river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, that empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It has been dammed to supply a hydroelectric power plant. The shoreline around the mouth of the river is protected as ...
which drains the waters of
Robertson Lake, Charles Lake, and Blais Lake.
[ The place called "Half Way Cabin" is located at the bottom of a bay facing Woody Island.
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Toponymy
The term ''Ha! Ha!'' does not come under the trivial onomatopoeia
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, but probably from an alteration of a Montagnais toponym almost unpronounceable in French which means in Algonquin ''place where bark is exchanged''. Other linguists think of a possible derivation of the term French
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''haha'' meaning "unexpected obstacle on a path".
The "Baie des Ha! Ha!" gave its name to the village of Baie-des-Ha! Ha! Which is now part of the municipality of Gros-Mécatina.
The term "Baie des Ha! Ha!" was formalized on December 5, 1968 at the Commission de toponymie du Québec
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.Commission de Toponymie du Québec - Toponym ''Baie des Ha! Ha!''
See also
*
Baie des Ha! Ha! (Saguenay River)
The Baie des Ha! Ha! is a particularly developed cove over a length of eleven kilometres on the Saguenay River in the region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean in Quebec, Canada. At the end of this natural corridor, which was originally called in French ...
, bay of the
Saguenay River
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It drains Lac Saint-Jean in the Laurentian Highlands, leaving at Alma and running east; the city of Saguenay is located on the river. It drains into the Saint Lawrence River. ...
in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region
References
External links
Commission de toponymie du Québec
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Landforms of Côte-Nord
Bays of Quebec