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Sayward is a Statistics Canada, 2006 Census
/ref> The village lies off the coast of Hardwicke Island.
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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 (Vancouver Island), Salmon River. The soils there have variable drainage and are mostly of loam texture. Upland soils in the val ...
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 on a spur from Highway 19.
The village (like its West Kootenays
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namesake) was called after William Parsons Sayward, a successful Victoria
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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./ref> The village lies off the coast of Hardwicke Island.
Demographics
In the2021 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 (Vancouver Island), Salmon River. The soils there have variable drainage and are mostly of loam texture. Upland soils in the val ...
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* * {{authority control Villages in British Columbia Northern Vancouver Island Populated places in the Strathcona Regional District