| Official Name: | Jarvis |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated Community |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Haldimand |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Ontario |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Ontario |
| Coordinates: | 42.8844°N -80.1139°W |
| Leader Title: | Mayor of Haldimand |
| Leader Name: | Shelley Ann Bentley |
| Leader Title1: | Governing body |
| Leader Name1: | The Council of the Corporation of Haldimand County |
| Leader Title2: | Ward 1 (Jarvis & Townsend) Councillor |
| Leader Name2: | Stewart Patterson |
| Leader Title3: | MP |
| Leader Name3: | Leslyn Lewis (Conservative) |
| Leader Title4: | MPP |
| Leader Name4: | Bobbi Ann Brady (Independent) |
| Area Land Km2: | 0.52 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 1214 |
| Population Density Km2: | 2,159.8 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code span |
| Postal Code: | N0A 1J0 |
| Area Code: | (519) |
| Elevation M: | 184 |
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.
Jarvis is located on land originally granted to William Jarvis, Provincial Secretary of Upper Canada from 1792 to 1817.[1]
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.[2]
The town was much bigger in the early 1900s, featuring 4 churches, 4 hotels, 5 blacksmiths, a school, brickyard, and cheese factories.
Only those ethnicities which compose more than 1% of the population have been included.
| 2021[3] | 2016[4] | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canadian | 275 | 460 | |||||||||||||
| English | 370 | 460 | |||||||||||||
| Irish | 305 | 260 | |||||||||||||
| Scottish | 235 | 265 | |||||||||||||
| French | 30 | 140 | |||||||||||||
| German | 220 | 185 | |||||||||||||
| Italian | 85 | 30 | |||||||||||||
| Ukrainian | 20 | 35 | |||||||||||||
| Dutch | 110 | 75 | |||||||||||||
| Polish | 45 | 25 | |||||||||||||
| Québécois | 30 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| French Canadian | 15 | ||||||||||||||
| Russian | 25 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Norwegian | 15 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Welsh | 30 | 20 | |||||||||||||
| Portuguese | 40 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| American | 20 | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Hungarian | 35 | 15 | |||||||||||||
| Total responses | 1,275 | 1,065 | |||||||||||||
| Total population | 1,214 | 1,037 | |||||||||||||
As of the 2021 census, there were 1,185 citizens that spoke English only and 25 that spoke both official languages.
As of the 2021 census, there were 770 and 495 as non-religious and secular perspectives.[3]
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.[5]
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.[6]
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[7] 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.