Peter Jarvis was the mayor of Stratford during Canadian Confederation.

Jarvis Street first appeared on the 1879 map of Stratford, along with all the other streets in the William Gordon survey. It was a survey presented in 1874 in the area bounded by what are now Lorne Avenue and St. Vincent, Erie and West Gore streets. Gordon, who would be mayor of Stratford when the town became a city, named 15 streets in his survey after his friends and business associates.

Jarvis Street was named for Peter Robinson Jarvis, a businessman and aristocrat who, for the Town of Stratford, served as its deputy reeve (1861-1862), mayor (1863-1867) and reeve (1873-1875). He was the mayor in 1867, when Canada was declared a country, and in a special ceremony that........

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