Sayward is a

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located in the Sayward Valley on the northeast coast of

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. It is about inland from Kelsey Bay on a spur from Highway 19. The village (like its West

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namesake) was called after William Parsons Sayward, a successful Victoria 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.

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In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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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.

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* * {{authority control Villages in British Columbia Northern Vancouver Island Populated places in the Strathcona Regional District

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