A ghost owns my laneway

York County Sheriff Frederick Wm. Jarvis
Harbord Village land speculator 1818-1887

Fred Jarvis keeled over in a horse-drawn cab on Queen Street on the evening of April 16, 1887, and was dead in his bed before midnight.

The mighty sheriff's heart attack — not entirely a surprise — was the talk of muddy York for days. His funeral procession along Wellesley St. three days later was followed by judges, lawyers and much of Ontario's elite...
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