=Jarvis, Ernest Frederick=, is one of the important officials of the civil branch of the Department of Militia and Defence, Ottawa, in which he holds the offices of Assistant Deputy Minister and Secretary of the Militia Council. He was born at St. Eleanor’s, Prince Edward Island, on September 16, 1862, the son of Edward Fitzgerald Jarvis, M.D., and Lucy DesBrisay Harding, his wife. He was educated at Summerside, P.E.I., and entered the public service of the Dominion on March 23, 1881, before he had completed his nineteenth year. In 1892 he was appointed Secretary to the late Hon. J. C. Paterson, Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Sir John Thompson and Sir Mackenzie Bowell, and remained with him until Mr. Paterson was sent to Manitoba as Lieut.-Governor in 1895. Continuing in the civil service Mr. Jarvis was appointed Chief Clerk of the Department of Militia and Defence by Sir Frederick Borden in January, 1903. He became Secretary of the Militia Council on November 28, 1904, and Assistant Deputy Minister on September 1, 1908. His expert knowledge of departmental organization was recognized when the administration of Sir Robert Borden appointed him a member of the Royal Commission to inquire into the state of records in the public departments of the Dominion, 1912-14. During the late war and the demobilization period Mr. Jarvis whose duties were enormously augmented has given proofs of his great abilities as a departmental officer. He was appointed a Companion of the Imperial Service Order on June 3, 1918. He is an Anglican in religion and in 1892 married Ethel Colborne, daughter of the late E. A. Meredith, LL.D., of Toronto. He resides at 347 Stewart Street, Ottawa. * * * * *