Salt Spring Island

Southern Gulf Islands · Islands Trust Local Trust Area

Salt Spring Island has its own site

Visit saltspringtown.org → for public records and the petition to make Salt Spring Island a town.

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

Current trustees

  • Timothy Peterson — Chair
  • Jamie Harris — Trustee
  • Laura Patrick — Trustee

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

398 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.
  • Salt Spring Island: 11,635 people, no council, and a quarter of the Trust's money — Salt Spring is the largest unincorporated community in British Columbia — bigger than 107 of BC's 161 municipalities. It has voted down incorporation twice. The Province's own analysis shows why the second vote mattered to every other island in the Trust.