Van Anda, British Columbia

Van Anda
Van Anda Location of Van Anda in British Columbia
Coordinates:
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Area code(s)	250, 778

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 unincorporated settlement on Texada Island in the northern Gulf of Georgia in British Columbia, Canada. It has a population of approximately 70 people. The surrounding regions incorporates Blubber Bay and Gillies Bay.

Name origin

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