Sayward is a
village
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located in the
Sayward Valley Sayward Valley is a low-lying area in northeastern Vancouver Island. It is occupied by a floodplain of the Salmon River. The soils there have variable drainage and are mostly of loam texture. Upland soils in the valley have clay loam to gravelly lo ...
on the northeast coast of
Vancouver Island
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in
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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. It is about inland from
Kelsey Bay
Kelsey Bay is a small coastal settlement located in the Sayward Valley on northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia about 1 mi (1.6 km) from the community of Sayward. The wharf at Kelsey Bay was previously the southern terminus for ...
on a spur from
Highway 19
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* Asian Highway 19
* European route E19
* European route E019
Canada
* Alberta Highway 19
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* Manitoba Highway 19
* ...
.
The village (like its West
Kootenays
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Boundaries
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namesake) was called after William Parsons Sayward, a successful
Victoria
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* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
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* Victoria, Seychelle ...
lumber merchant who was born in Maine in 1818 and came to Victoria from California in 1858. The 2016 population of the village was 311, down from 341 in 2006 and 379 in 2001.
Statistics Canada, 2006 Census
/ref> The village lies off the coast of Hardwicke Island
Hardwicke Island is an island in British Columbia, Canada, measuring approximately .
Geography
Hardwicke Island lies directly off the coast of the village of Sayward and to the west of its neighbour West Thurlow Island. Hardwicke Island is loc ...
.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
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conducted by Statistics Canada
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, Sayward had a population of 334 living in 166 of its 182 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 311. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
*Sayward Valley Sayward Valley is a low-lying area in northeastern Vancouver Island. It is occupied by a floodplain of the Salmon River. The soils there have variable drainage and are mostly of loam texture. Upland soils in the valley have clay loam to gravelly lo ...
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Villages in British Columbia
Northern Vancouver Island
Populated places in the Strathcona Regional District