Salt Spring Island

Southern Gulf Islands · Islands Trust Local Trust Area

Salt Spring Island has its own site

Visit saltspringtown.org → — the ferry, the island lot by lot, every upcoming meeting, and the petition for Salt Spring Island to govern itself.

Sign the Salt Spring Island incorporation petition →

The largest and most populous Gulf Island, with the biggest planning caseload in the Trust Area.

Current trustees

Current trustee roster not yet imported for this Local Trust Area.

Past trustee elections

2022: Salt Spring Islands Trust councillor election

2 seats available

CandidateVotesResult
Laura Patrick1,441Elected
Jamie Harris1,347Elected

Source: CivicInfo BC 2022 Local Election Results

CivicInfo elected-official report verifies elected trustees and vote totals. Non-elected/opponent rows are pending a separate official results source before publication.

The archive

396 Islands Trust meeting documents on record. Each links to its exact source.

Documented examples

  • The Definition of a Crisis — Salt Spring Island declared a housing crisis, and the Islands Trust's own volunteer task force then told it publicly that it moves too slowly to meet one. From a six-month wait for a single staff report, to a community-plan rewrite its consultant walked away from, to a water system that stopped taking new connections in 2014, Salt Spring is the case study in an institution whose pace has become the problem.