Lappe, Ontario Explained

Lappe
Settlement Type:Unincorporated place
Pushpin Map:Ontario
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Lappe in Ontario
Coordinates:48.5789°N -89.3586°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Canada
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Ontario
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Thunder Bay
Unit Pref:Metric
Elevation Footnotes:[2]
Elevation M:421
Population As Of:2006
Population Footnotes:[3]
Population Total:1465
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:Eastern Time Zone
Utc Offset1:-5
Timezone1 Dst:Eastern Time Zone
Utc Offset1 Dst:-4
Postal Code Type:Postal code FSA
Postal Code:P7G
Area Code:807

Lappe is a community in the Unorganized part of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is within and at the southern border of geographic Gorham Township,[4] and lies approximately 20 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay at the junction of Ontario Highway 589 and Ontario Highway 591.

An unincorporated designated place served by the East Gorham local services board, Lappe had a population of 1,465 in the Canada 2006 Census, an increase of 4.2% since 2001. It is the most populated designated place in Ontario.

Pioneer settlers reported that the community received its name in the following way. As they travelled north from the small community of Kivikoski they were called Laplanders (northerners) and the community they settled called "Lappi", the Finnish word for Lapland. When the community acquired postal service in the 1930s, a bureaucratic error distorted the spelling to the present "Lappe".[5]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lappe had a population of 1,434 living in 589 of its 722 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,436. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Lappe. FBWHQ. 2015-07-06.
  2. Elevation taken from Google Earth at coordinates given in the Infobox. Accessed 2015-07-06.
  3. [Statistics Canada]
  4. Web site: Gorham. PDF. Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. 2015-07-06. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150707120638/http://www.geologyontario.mndmf.gov.on.ca/website/historic_claim_maps/G/Gorham.pdf. 2015-07-07.
  5. Book: Kouhi, Christine. A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay. The Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society; Department of the Secretary of State for the Government of Canada. 1976. 48. 4466985.
  6. Web site: Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places . . February 9, 2022 . Sep 2, 2022.