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.

[6] 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 7.4% from its 2016 population of 311.