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.
The village (similar to its West Kootenays counterpart) was named after William Parsons Sayward, a successful Victoria lumber merchant born in Maine in 1818 and who moved from California to Victoria in 1858.