Mount Jarvis was named for Flight Lieutenant Terrance Patrick Jarvis.
Terrance Jarvis went to St. Augustine’s School and Vancouver College. While at college he was a star football player. Prior to joining the R.C.A.F. he worked for B. & K. Logging and for the Vedder Logging Company. Before going overseas, in May 1943, he took advanced instructor’s training. Terrance Jarvis served with 401 “Ram” Squadron, a Canadian day fighter unit. At the time of his death, July 31, 1944, he was flying a Spitfire on an armed reconnaissance mission over the Domfront area of France. Terrance’s aircraft was, intercepted by a German FW‑190 fighter but he was able to evade the enemy aircraft. He attacked and destroyed the FW-190, but in doing so ran his own wing into a tree and crashed. The aircraft exploded ten miles southeast of Vire, France. He was the husband of Phyllis Edna Jarvis of Vancouver and had two children, Wayne and Wendy.
In 1947, geographical features were named by an agency of the federal government, the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical names after receiving a list of names of Canadian servicemen from Chilliwack who were killed during the Second World War From Canada’s Department of National Defence. The names were divided by province and were to be assigned to geographical features close to the place of enlistment (Grainger, 1998, p.82).
Mount Jarvis is found along the Coquihalla Highway.
- Grainger, N. (1998). The Mountain Project.Chilliwack, B.C.: Neil Grainger
- Ferguson, P. (2009). Chilliwack War Memorial. Online exhibit retrieved from http://www.chilliwackmuseum.ca/war-memorial/WW2_J_names.html
Photograph caption: Flight Lieutenant Terrance Patrick Jarvis. [Chilliwack Museum and Archives]