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.

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, 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.