Andrew Canova

Andrew P. Canova (October 30, 1835 – December 17, 1909) was a Florida settler and author of Life and Adventures in South Florida.

He was a veteran of the Third Seminole War.

In fall of 1858, he moved from Tampa Bay to Brevard County where he settled on the Sebastian River. He lived in a palm thatch hut near the mouth of the river. He, along with Ed Marr, hunted, fished and raised onions in a small garden. He started to cultivate citrus, but the idea was abandoned later impatiently.

Canova went to St. Augustine to enlist in the Confederate Army in 1861.

In 1885 he wrote Life and Adventures in South Florida, in which he lamented the demise of wildlife in the Indian River area.

Canova Beach in Brevard County was not named after him, but after Carlos Canova, Sr.