Jarvis, Rev. Arthur

JARVIS, Rev. Arthur (1849-1936) has qualified for inclusion in this work because he appears to have habitually prepared plans for churches in Ontario and Quebec during a period of twenty years. As rector of Napanee in the 1890's he was described as 'the architect of quite a number of churches in this and other dioceses' (Canadian Churchman, 4 January 1894, 6). His ecclesiastical designs were often described as buildings in the Gothic style or in the 'early English style of pointed architecture', and it is likely that other works from his hand will be uncovered with further research. Born in Cornwall, Ont. on 28 May 1849 he was the thirteenth son of Judge George S. Jarvis and a member of Jarvis family which played an important role in the political development of Upper Canada. He attended Trinity College School at Weston, Ont. and then enrolled at Trinity University from where he graduated in 1871. He held the post of Rector at Morrisburg, Ont. from 1881, then at Carleton Place from 1884, and finally at Napanee from 1890 until his retirement in 1908. He died in Toronto on 5 June 1936 (obituary and port. in the Mail & Empire [Toronto], 5 June 1936, 4; 6 June 1936, 4; biography in H. Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912, 576).

WALES, ONT., St. David's Anglican Church, 1889 (Canadian Churchman [Toronto], 30 May 1889, 343, descrip.)
CORNWALL, ONT., Church of the Good Shepherd (Anglican), 1893 (Canadian Churchman [Toronto], 4 Jan. 1894, 6, descrip.)
IROQUOIS, ONT., Anglican Church, 1893-94 (Canadian Churchman [Toronto], 8 Feb. 1894, 87, descrip.)
CAYUGA, ONT., St. John's Anglican Church, 1896 (Canadian Churchman [Toronto], 30 July 1896, 492, descrip.)
COATICOOK, QUE., St. Stephen's Anglican Church, 1908 (A. Legge, Yearbook and History of St. Stephen's Parish Coaticook, Que., 1931, illus.)