Fonds F1038 - Dick Jarvis fonds

William Morley Punchen "Dick" Jarvis, 1870-1929, was born in Toronto and came to Alberta in 1888 to join the North-West Mounted Police. He served at Maple Creek, Saskatchewan and Medicine Hat, Fort Macleod and Lethbridge, Alberta before his discharge in 1893. In that same year he married Marion Osborne Harvey, 1873-1947, and they had four daughters, Edyth Edwin (Baker), Constance Kingmill (Pullar), 1898-?, Marion Grace (Dow), 1903-?, and Marjorie. He worked as a cowboy, ran a hotel at Mitford, Alberta for a year, then briefly returned to Toronto. In 1898 the family returned to Alberta and settled in Red Deer, where Dick ran a lumber mill until 1914, when he sold it to Cushing Brothers. Dick's uncle, William Drummond Jarvis, 1834-1914, had also served with the NWMP, as did his brothers Arthur Murray Jarvis and Frederick S. Jarvis, and his cousins Percy Beaumont Jarvis, William Reginald Jarvis and Edward William Jarvis. Jarvis Bay Provincial Park at Sylvan Lake, Alberta, and Jarvis Street in Red Deer, Alberta are named after Dick Jarvis.