Van Anda, British Columbia

This article is about a town in Canada. For the abandoned town in Montana, USA, see Vananda, Montana.

Van Anda, formerly spelled Vananda, is an unincoporated settlement on Texada Island in the northern Gulf of Georgia in British Columbia, Canada. It has a population of approximately 70 people. Other locations on the island include Blubber Bay and Gillies Bay.

Name origin

Named after the Van Anda Copper & Gold Mining Company, which company owned 840 acres (3.4 km2) on the northeast side of the island, including the "Copper Queen" claim here; president Edward Blewitt, Seattle capitalist and miner who named both his son and his mining company after his friend Carr Van Anda, a well-known New York City journalist in the 1870's.

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