Jarvis, Ontario

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Jarvis
Unincorporated Community
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The Jarvis Train Station
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Jarvis
Location in southern Ontario
Coordinates: 42°53′04″N80°06′50″W / 42.88444°N 80.11389°W / 42.88444; -80.11389
Country Canada
Province Ontario
County Haldimand
Government
 • Mayor of HaldimandShelley Ann Bentley
 • Governing bodyThe Council of the Corporation of Haldimand County
 • Ward 1 (Jarvis & Townsend) CouncillorStewart Patterson
 •  MP Leslyn Lewis (Conservative)
 •  MPP Bobbi Ann Brady (Independent)
Area
 • Land0.52 km2 (0.20 sq mi)
Elevation
184 m (604 ft)
Population
 (2021) [1]
 • Total1,214 [1]
 • Density2,159.8/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.

Contents

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
Population1,214 (+12% from 2016)1,037 (+13.6% from 2011)
Land area0.56 km2 (0.22 sq mi)0.52 km2 (0.20 sq mi)
Population density2,159.8/km2 (5,594/sq mi)1,987.4/km2 (5,147/sq mi)
Median age39.6 (M: 38.4, F: 40.4)39.1 (M: 36.5, F: 41.8)
Private dwellings425 (total) 375 (total) 
Median household income$92,000$70,912
References: 2021 [4] 2016 [5] earlier [6] [7]

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 [8]
Pop. % Pop. %
Canadian 275460
English 370460
Irish 305260
Scottish 235265
French [lower-alpha 1] 30140
German 220185
Italian 8530
Ukrainian 2035
Dutch 11075
Polish 4525
Québécois 300
French Canadian 15
Russian 250
Norwegian 150
Welsh 3020
Portuguese 400
American 2010
Hungarian 3515
Total responses1,2751,065
Total population1,2141,037
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. [9]

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. [10]

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 [11] 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

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Census Profile: Jarvis Ontario (Population centre)". Canada 2021 Census . Statistics Canada. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ "The History of Jarvis information". visual heritage. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  4. ↑ "2021 Community Profiles". 2021 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. February 4, 2022.
  5. ↑ "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021.
  6. ↑ "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Census Profile: Jarvis Ontario (Population centre)". Canada 2016 Census . Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  9. ↑ Jarvis Public School testing information at Fraser Institute
  10. ↑ CIBC will transfer accounts to Hagersville Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine at Simcoe Reformer
  11. ↑ 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.
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