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Country
  
Canada

Postal code FSA
  
P7G

Province
  
Ontario

Local time
  
Sunday 3:17 PM

District
  
Thunder Bay

Elevation
  
421 m

Population
  
1,465 (2006)

Area code
  
807

Lappe, Ontario

Time zone
  
Eastern Time Zone (UTC-5)

Weather
  
-9°C, Wind NW at 13 km/h, 35% Humidity

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, and lies approximately 20 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay at the junction of Ontario Highway 589 and Ontario Highway 591.

Map of Lappe, ON, Canada

A 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".

References

Lappe, Ontario Wikipedia


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