Along the Trans Canada Highway in Quebec, Canada, not far from the New Brunswick border, is the town of:
Saint Louis de Ha! Ha!
There are several stories about how the name came about, but it seems that it's some sort of a bastardization of a native word or phrase (the French added the St. Louis part).
Another weird thing is that the road signs mentioning one's approach to the town spell it several ways: St. Louis de Ha! Ha!, St. Louis de Ha-Ha and St. Louis de ha-ha. And those are all Provincial Government road signs - I guess they couldn't decide which was right, so used all three on various approach signs.
cheers, frank
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From: Chris Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have family in Biggar Sask. The town slogan is: "New York is big, but this is Biggar" or something like that.
- Chris From Surrey, BC, which is accross the fraser River from New Westminster.
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