Lappe, Ontario

Lappe is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Thunder Bay District at the junction of Highway 589 and Highway 591, approximately 20 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay.

A designated place served by a 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.[1]

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 1930's, a bureaucratic error distorted the spelling to the present "Lappe". [2]

References

  1. ^ Statistics Canada Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and designated places, 2006 and 2001 censuses. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
  2. ^ Kouhi, Christine, et al. A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay. The Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society & the Secretary of State Department for the Government of Canada, 1976, p.48.
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Unorganized Thunder Bay (Local services boards: Armstrong • Hurkett • Kaministiquia • Lappe • Rossport • Shebandowan)
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See also: Communities in Thunder Bay District • Census divisions of Ontario