Columbia Gardens is in the West Kootenay region of southern British Columbia . The locality is east of Trail , and near the Boundary-Waneta Border Crossing .
5-467: William Parsons Sayward gave his name to Sayward village on Vancouver Island, and also to the ghost town in this locality. The Kootenay settlement was established in 1893, about a quarter of a mile above Beaver Creek, which would be over three quarters of a mile north of the Sayward station , a flag stop by 1897. In 1907, a much larger area called Columbia Gardens, described as being between Sayward and Trail,
10-457: 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, down from 341 in 2006 and 379 in 2001. 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,
15-512: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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) was called after William Parsons Sayward,
20-522: The general area between Waneta and Montrose , and includes an airport, industrial park, and winery. It is the most northerly point still served by the railway freight line. 49°04′07″N 117°35′41″W / 49.0686°N 117.5948°W / 49.0686; -117.5948 This article about a location in the Interior of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Canadian ghost town -related article
25-449: Was surveyed. The chosen name aimed to attract buyers to a subdivision selling potential orchards. The existing Sayward settlement was renamed Columbia Gardens, evidenced by the post office name, which opened the next year. However, the train station name did not change until 1913. The settlement and station are long gone. The Bouma dairy farm, which absorbed the townsite in the 1920s, now only grows hay. Columbia Gardens currently refers to
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