Sayward (B.C.)
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Sources of Information
- Sayward Burial Park cemetery listings, Sayward, B.C, 2000.
- NIMA GEOnet www homepage, Apr. 29, 2002:under Canada (Sayward, ppl. 50p0s21ʹN., 125p0s35ʹW., in British Columbia)
Wikipedia description:
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) 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.: 153 The 2016 population of the village was 311, down from 341 in 2006 and 379 in 2001. The village lies off the coast of Hardwicke Island.
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