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Petersburg, Ontario

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official_nameSt Petersburg
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settlement_typeUnincorporated community
image_skylineFormer Blue Moon Restaurant - Petersburg, ON.jpg
image_captionFormer Blue Moon Restaurant
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subdivision_name1Ontario
subdivision_type2Regional municipality
subdivision_name2Waterloo
subdivision_type3Township
subdivision_name3Wilmot
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area_land_km20.66
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population_total374
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area_codes519 and 226
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Petersburg is an unincorporated community in Wilmot Township in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada.

History

The village was settled and named afer Peter Wilker, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany in the 1830s.

The locality had a school in 1842, a post office in 1849 and in 1856, the locality was a station on the Grand Trunk Railway.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Petersburg had a population of 374 living in 147 of its 149 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 340. With a land area of 0.66 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Notable people

  • Harold Albrecht, member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2006 – 2019.
  • Glen Cressman, ice hockey player.
  • Albert Heer, mayor of Waterloo, Ontario from 1944 to 1946.

References

References

  2. "History of Wilmot Township". Township of Wilmot.
  3. "Wilmot Township - Waterloo Museums".
  4. (February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places". [[Statistics Canada]].
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