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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.
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Map of Van Anda, BC, Canada
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.
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Van Anda, British Columbia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA