| Sayward | |
| Official Name: | Village of Sayward[1] |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Vancouver Island#Canada British Columbia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Sayward in British Columbia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | British Columbia |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Vancouver Island |
| Subdivision Type3: | Regional district |
| Subdivision Name3: | Strathcona |
| Leader Title: | Governing body |
| Leader Name: | Sayward Village Council |
| Leader Title1: | Mayor |
| Leader Name1: | Mark Baker |
| Established Title2: | Incorporated |
| Established Date2: | 1968 |
| Area Total Km2: | 4.72 |
| Population As Of: | 2006 |
| Population Total: | 311 |
| Population Density Km2: | 72.2 |
| Timezone: | PST |
| Utc Offset: | -8 |
| Coordinates: | 50.3836°N -125.9603°W |
| Elevation M: | 30 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | 19 |
| Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
| Blank1 Info: | Johnstone Strait |
Sayward is a village located in the Sayward Valley on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is about 1miles 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. The 2016 population of the village was 311,[4] down from 341 in 2006 and 379 in 2001.[5] The village lies off the coast of Hardwicke Island.
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 from its 2016 population of 311. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]