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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Corras

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Corra at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Corras at 849 East 14th in 1940.

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Where the Corras lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    849 East 14th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • S C Corra 1940
    • Alfred R Corra 1940
    • Miss S Corra, a secretary at Vancouver Italian-Canadian 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Reid at 843 and J E Sager at 857. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    342 East 16th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs T Corra, widow of L 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Lee at 340 and S W Smart at 370. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a secretary. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant and Riley Park. Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.

The story, address by address

In 1940 the directory lists S C Corra at 849 East 14th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alfred R Corra there, with Miss S Corra, a secretary at Vancouver Italian-Canadian. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs T Corra at 342 East 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Theresa Corra there as the householder, widow of L.

Today

849 East 14th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 342 East 16th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Corras

Every directory, as one book

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under C. Want a name removed? Tell us.