Sayward
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
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Arrow Lakes News, 1 Apr 2017". www.arrowlakesnews.com.
- ^ "Biography – SAYWARD, WILLIAM PARSONS – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ^ Akrigg, G.P.V.; Akrigg, Helen B. (1969), 1001 British Columbia Place Names (3rd, 1973 ed.), Vancouver: Discovery Press
- ^ "Census 2016: Census Subdivisions - BC Stats". www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
- ^ Statistics Canada, 2006 Census
- ^ "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
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