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 -0.1% from its 2016 population of 1,436. With a land area of 145.62 km2 (56.22 sq mi), it had a population density of 9.8/km2 (25.5/sq mi) in 2021.[6]
^Kouhi, Christine (1976). 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. p. 48. OCLC4466985.