Aemilius Jarvis

Jarvis was born on April 25, 1860, in rural York County north of Toronto, to William Dummer Powell Jarvis, a lawyer, and Diana Irving Jarvis, Jarvis' grandfather was Samuel Peters Jarvis and his great-grandfather was William Jarvis. In 1860, the family moved to Hamilton, Ontario to be closer to his mother's family, the Irvings. Jarvis attended Upper Canada College, leaving at age 16 in 1876. In 1884, Jarvis married his first cousin Augustus Irving, who died after World War I. He later married Marion Gertrude Read in 1929. delivering a message to George's cousin Tzar Nicholas via an intermediary to encourage Russia to stay in the war, in order to maintain two fronts on Germany. (The intermediary was shortly thereafter assassinated on a train platform immediately following passing -and ignoring- Jarvis in a train-car corridor, with several "ugly" men following close behind her.) Aemilius was recognized by the Navy League of Canada's award of its unofficial “Special Service Decoration” for his wartime contributions. Jarvis' grandson Robert Aemilius Jarvis published a biography of his grandfather, "The Last Viking". ==Legendary yachtsman==

Jarvis sailed alone around Lake Ontario, from Hamilton to Niagara-on-the-Lake to Whitby and back, in a tiny dinghy aptly called Tar Pot when he was just twelve years old. Later in life, he spent two years sailing the world in a square-rigger sailing vessel. He designed and built racing sailboats, founded the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club (RHYC), and was a longtime member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC), of which he was elected commodore seven times. He won the inaugural Canada's Cup yachting race in 1896 sailing the Canada, a 57-foot cutter. Additionally, he won over 100 international freshwater sailing events while at Royal Canadian Yacht Club (& more than 300 overall ==Ontario bond scandal==

Jarvis and Co. purchased million in war bonds, at a time "when Canada's banks couldn't possibly take them", saving the government million. He'd refused, against all advice, to testify in his own defence, and one theory as to why is that he was shielding/taking a fall for his son, also charged in the affair, after having lost another son previously in World War I. Jarvis paid a total of and left jail in April 1925. The case was brought to appeals court in 1927, but dismissed. ==References==