Van Anda

VAN ANDA, often spelled Vananda, pop 338, is a village on the northeast side of TEXADA ISLAND in GEORGIA STRAIT, 10 km south of POWELL RIVER. By the early 1900s it was a GOLD and COPPER mining boomtown with hotels, a hospital, opera house, SAWMILL, newspaper and jail. A SMELTER operated intermittently from 1898 to 1919, and MINING continued until the 1950s. Today TOURISM is important and there are many retired residents. It was named after Carl Van Anda, a New York journalist, by his friend...

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