Sayward

Sayward
Village
Village of Sayward[1]
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Coordinates: 50°23′1″N 125°57′37″W
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Region	Vancouver Island
Regional district	Strathcona
Incorporated	1968
Government
• Governing body	Sayward Village Council
• Mayor	Mark Baker
Area
• Total	4.72 km^2 (1.82 sq mi)
Elevation	30 m (100 ft)
Population  (2006)
• Total	311
• Density	72.2/km^2 (187/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-8 (PST)
Highways	19
Waterways	Johnstone Strait
Website	Official website

Sayward is a village located in the Sayward Valley on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is about 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) inland from Kelsey Bay on a spur from Highway 19.

The village (like its West Kootenays namesake)^[2] was called after William Parsons Sayward,^[3] a successful Victoria lumber merchant who was born in Maine in 1818 and came to Victoria from California in 1858.^[4]: 153 The 2016 population of the village was 311,^[5] down from 341 in 2006 and 379 in 2001.^[6] The village lies off the coast of Hardwicke Island.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sayward had a population of 334 living in 166 of its 182 total private dwellings, a change of 7.4% from its 2016 population of 311. With a land area of 4.44 km² (1.71 sq mi), it had a population density of 75.2/km² (194.8/sq mi) in 2021.^[7]

See also

Sayward School

• Sayward Valley

References

1. "British Columbia Regional Districts, Municipalities, Corporate Name, Date of Incorporation and Postal Address" (XLS). British Columbia Ministry of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
2. "Arrow Lakes News, 1 Apr 2017". www.arrowlakesnews.com.
3. "Biography – SAYWARD, WILLIAM PARSONS – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
4. Akrigg, G.P.V.; Akrigg, Helen B. (1969), 1001 British Columbia Place Names (3rd, 1973 ed.), Vancouver: Discovery Press
5. "Census 2016: Census Subdivisions - BC Stats". www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
6. Statistics Canada, 2006 Census
7. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), British Columbia". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 20, 2022.

External links

• Media related to Sayward, British Columbia at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website