Bay) is located in the municipality of Gros-Mécatina, in the Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, on the north shore of Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in the administrative region of Côte-Nord in eastern Quebec, Canada.
is bordered by the Red, Saint-Esprit, Ronde, Fecteau (largest) and Robertson Islets.
[2] The place called "Half Way Cabin" is located at the bottom of a bay facing Woody Island.
does not come under the trivial onomatopoeia, 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 haha meaning "unexpected obstacle on a path".
was formalized on December 5, 1968 at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.