| Tête-à-la-Baleine | |
| Settlement Type: | Unconstituted locality |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Quebec#Canada |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 197 |
| Coordinates: | 50.7028°N -59.3231°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Côte-Nord |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent |
| Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name4: | Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Manicouagan |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Duplessis |
| Area Land Km2: | 9.19 |
| Population Total: | 129 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 14.0 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change (2006–11) |
| Population Blank1: | 34.8% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 54 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | −04:00 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | G0G 2W0 |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Tête-à-la-Baleine is an unconstituted locality within the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada.
Tête-à-la-Baleine, occasionally known as Whale Head in English, was settled in the 19th century after Michael Kenty bought the local trading post from the Labrador Company. Initial settlement mostly took place on the nearby islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, although eventually most residents moved to the community's current site on the mainland in order to be closer to sources of wood and food in the winter. However, some residents still move back and forth, residing on the islands in summer and in the mainland community in winter.[1]
The community is named after a nearby island in the Gros Mécatina Archipelago that resembles a whale head.
There is a 17km (11miles) section of Quebec Highway 138 connecting through the community between the Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport and ferry terminal.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tête-à-la-Baleine had a population of 119 living in 59 of its 79 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 145. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Commission scolaire du Littoral operates the Gabriel-Dionne School (Francophone).[3]