Van Anda, formerly spelled Vananda, is an unincoporated settlement on Texada Island

Texada Island

Texada Island is the largest island in the Strait of Georgia of British Columbia, Canada. Its northern tip is located about southwest of the city of Powell River and west of the Sechelt Peninsula on the Sunshine Coast. A former mining and logging area, the island still has a few quarries and old...

 in the northern Gulf of Georgia in British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It has a population of approximately 70 people. Other locations on the island include Blubber Bay

Blubber Bay, British Columbia

Blubbery Bay is an unincorporated settlement on the northern end of Texada Island at the bay of the same name in the northern Gulf of Georgia on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Texada Island is one of the Northern Gulf Islands, and lies across Malaspina Strait from the town of Powell...

 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

Carr Van Anda

Carr Vattel Van Anda was the managing editor of The New York Times under Adolph Ochs, from 1904 to 1932....

, a well-known New York City journalist in the 1870's.