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Jarvis
Jarvis
Unincorporated Community
	The Jarvis Train Station
	Jarvis Location in southern Ontario
	Coordinates: 42°53′04″N 80°06′50″W / 42.88444°N 80.11389°W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
County	Haldimand
Government
• Mayor of Haldimand	Shelley Ann Bentley
• Governing body	The Council of the Corporation of Haldimand County
• Ward 1 (Jarvis & Townsend) Councillor	Stewart Patterson
• MP	Leslyn Lewis (Conservative)
• MPP	Bobbi Ann Brady (Independent)
Area
• Land	0.52 km2 (0.20 sq mi)
Elevation	184 m (604 ft)
Population (2021)
• Total	1,214
• Density	2,159.8/km2 (5,594/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Postal code span	N0A 1J0
Area code(s)	(519)

Jarvis is a small community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.

This community is located near the towns of Simcoe, Townsend, Cayuga, Port Dover and Hagersville. Highway 3 and Highway 6 form a crossroads near the centre of the community.

History

Jarvis is located on land originally granted to William Jarvis, Provincial Secretary of Upper Canada from 1792 to 1817.^[2]

On May 24, 1873, a fire destroyed a quarter of the town. Although there were no deaths a large amount of wooden structures in town were destroyed.^[3]

The town was much bigger in the early 1900s, featuring 4 churches, 4 hotels, 5 blacksmiths, a school, brickyard, and cheese factories.

Demographics

Canada census – Jarvis community profile

	2021	2016
Population	1,214 (+12% from 2016)	1,037 (+13.6% from 2011)
Land area	0.56 km² (0.22 sq mi)	0.52 km² (0.20 sq mi)
Population density	2,159.8/km² (5,594/sq mi)	1,987.4/km² (5,147/sq mi)
Median age	39.6 (M: 38.4, F: 40.4)	39.1 (M: 36.5, F: 41.8)
Private dwellings	425 (total)	375 (total)
Median household income	$92,000	$70,912

References: 2021^[4] 2016^[5]

Ethnicity

Only those ethnicities which compose more than 1% of the population have been included.

Ethnic Groups in the Community of Jarvis, Ontario (2021)
Ethnic Group	2021^[1]		2016^[6]
Ethnic Group	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Canadian	275	22.65%	460	44.36%
English	370	30.48%	460	44.36%
Irish	305	25.12%	260	25.07%
Scottish	235	19.36%	265	25.55%
French^[a]	30	2.47%	140	13.5%
German	220	18.12%	185	17.84%
Italian	85	7%	30	2.89%
Ukrainian	20	1.65%	35	3.38%
Dutch	110	9.06%	75	7.23%
Polish	45	3.71%	25	2.41%
Québécois	30	2.47%	0	0%
French Canadian	15	1.24%
Russian	25	2.06%	0	0%
Norwegian	15	1.24%	0	0%
Welsh	30	2.47%	20	1.93%
Portuguese	40	3.29%	0	0%
American	20	1.65%	10	0.96%
Hungarian	35	2.88%	15	1.45%
Total responses	1,275	105.02%	1,065	102.7%
Total population	1,214	100%	1,037	100%
Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.

Language

As of the 2021 census, there were 1,185 citizens that spoke English only and 25 that spoke both official languages.^[1]

Religion

As of the 2021 census, there were 770 and 495 as non-religious and secular perspectives.^[1]

Education

Schools include Jarvis Community Christian School (a member of the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools) and Jarvis Public School.

Jarvis Public School has 22 students enrolled in grade 6 as of the 2017-18 school year. Slightly over 18% of the students at Jarvis Public School have some form of developmental disability. Grade 3 and 6 students at Jarvis Public perform the best at writing and the worst at mathematics. Recent testing has indicated that 40% of Jarvis Public School students in grade 3 and grade 6 are experiencing troubles coping with the current Ontario curriculum. Female students have somewhat of a greater edge over the male students in reading; but the gulf between the male students and the female students is not so significant in math.^[7]

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Business

Businesses in the town of Jarvis include a gas station, a microbrewery, several restaurants, and two convenience stores. Jarvis also has a community centre that holds Jack and Jills along with weddings and other events.

There is also a car dealership that also sells motorcycle trikes, a flower store, a new and gently used children's clothing shop along with a butcher shop and bakery. There was only one bank in Jarvis (CIBC), which had served Jarvis since 1898 and officially closed on May 24, 2018, due to lack of business.^[8]

Royal Canadian Air Force Station Jarvis

During World War II the Royal Canadian Air Force built and operated No. 1 Bombing & Gunnery School as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan^[9] on a 600-acre site 6 kilometers southeast of Jarvis. A historical plaque on Concession 2 Walpole marks the location, and the reverse side of the plaque lists the names of the thirty-eight Commonwealth airmen and one civilian who died while serving at No. 1 B&GS.

The air station appears in the 1942 Hollywood movie Captains of the Clouds.

Notes

^ Statistic includes all individuals that identified as having a French origin but not otherwise specified.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Census Profile: Jarvis Ontario (Population centre)". Canada 2021 Census. Statistics Canada. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
^ Blakely, Phyllis R. and John N. Grant, eds., “Mr. Secretary Jarvis: William Jarvis of Cornwall and York,” in Eleven Exiles: Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution, Dundurn Press Limited, Toronto, 1982
^ "The History of Jarvis information". visual heritage. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
^ "2021 Community Profiles". 2021 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. February 4, 2022.
^ "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021.
^ "Census Profile: Jarvis Ontario (Population centre)". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
^ Jarvis Public School testing information at Fraser Institute
^ CIBC will transfer accounts to Hagersville Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine at Simcoe Reformer
^ Hatch, F. J. (1983). The Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1939-1945. Ottawa: Directorate of History, Department of National Defence. ISBN 0660114437.