Samuel Jarvis

Samuel Peters Jarvis (November 15, 1792 – September 6, 1857) was a Canadian government official in the nineteenth century.

Thomas Gibbs Ridout, who was living in Quebec at the time, paid for various supplies for Eliza and a year later accused Jarvis of owing him £100.

[3] In 1817 John Ridout was working as a clerk in his brother's law practice and visited Jarvis's office in relation to legal business.

[12] On June 8, 1826, Jarvis and fourteen others, disguised as Indians, broke into the offices of William Lyon Mackenzie's newspaper Colonial Advocate, where they smashed his printing press and threw it into Toronto Harbour.

[13][14][15][16] Jarvis was named Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Upper Canada in 1837, replacing James Givins.

[1] A three-man commission appointed to investigate complaints about the Department of Indian Affairs found substantial problems there.

Witnesses to the commission testified about occurrences of bribery, fraud, religious discrimination and lack of interest in the welfare of the Indians under its supervision.

A son, Samuel Peters Jarvis Jr. CMG (1820–1905), was a British Army officer (Major General) who served in South Africa and died in England.