Petersburg, Ontario

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.

St Petersburg
Unincorporated community
Former Blue Moon Restaurant
Coordinates: 43.413530°N 80.605148°W / 43.413530; -80.605148
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Regional municipality	Waterloo
Township	Wilmot
Area
• Land	0.66 km2 (0.25 sq mi)
Population  (2021)
• Total	374
• Density	566.7/km2 (1,468/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Forward sortation area	N0B 2H0
Area codes	519 and 226
GNBC Code	FDOVR

History

The village was settled and named afer Peter Wilker, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany in the 1830's.^[1]

The locality had a school in 1842, a post office in 1849 amd in 1856, the locality was a station on the Grand Trunk Railway.^[2]

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 10% from its 2016 population of 340. With a land area of 0.66 km² (0.25 sq mi), it had a population density of 566.7/km² (1,467.7/sq mi) in 2021.^[3]

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.

See also

• List of communities in Ontario
• List of designated places in Ontario