- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://www.cantoncemetery.ca/stories-about-persons-interred.html
- Biography:
- William Henry Pope Jarvis or WHP, as he was known, was born in St. Eleanor’s, Prince Edward Island on May 23, 1876, the last of the seven children of Henry Fitzgerald Jarvis, a local doctor. Leaving home upon finishing school, WFP found work on a fishing boat sailing off the Nova Scotia coast. Soon shipwrecked on Sable Island, he decided that the sea was not his calling. Still adventurous, he headed west on the recently completed trans-Canada railway to find his fortune in the goldfields of the Fraser River in lower British Columbia.
- Great Grandson of United Empire Loyalist: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=4197
- Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81716816/william_henry_pope-jarvis
