Corsi, Alexander, Jr. “Alex”
Lela Ellen (Jones) Corsi
Father: Alexander Corsi, Sr. “Alex” (1884-1932)
Mother: Palmira (Helrigel) (Corsi) Vittoni (1886-1971)
Brothers:John “Johnny (c.1912-1997); George (1913-1988); Peter (1915-1915); Christopher Joseph “Tuffy” (1922-1987)
Sisters: Mary (1914- ); Marguerite/Margaret (c.1916- ); Palmira “Etta” (1923-2000)
Alexander Corsi was born on “The Motherlode” mining claim near Greenwood, BC, on November 4, 1916, the son of Alexander Corsi, Sr. and Palmira (Helrigel) Corsi. He married Lela Ellen Jones in Princeton on November 18, 1941. At the time of their marriage, he was working as a plumber’s helper at the Copper Mountain mine and she was working as a waitress. Both were living at Copper Mountain. He died in at Nicola Valley General Hospital in Merritt, BC, on October 13, 2002. He is buried in the Princeton Cemetery.
He was a pitcher on the Copper Mountain senior boy’s baseball team (1928). Alex and his mother travelled to Vancouver in 1929 to seek medical treatment as he had badly injured his arm in a shooting accident. In 1933, he was skiing with the Amber Ski Club. And in 1951, he and Lela were members of the Princeton Curling Club.
On Dominion Day in Princeton in 1933 he won the drawing contest.
At nineteen, with brother George Corsi and Robert Muir, Jr., he was first to break the trail from Copper Mountain to Wolfe Creek Hill through 6 feet of snow in 1935.
Princeton Our Valley, page 303-304; Marriage registration (BC Archives); Death registration (BC Archives); Princeton Star,May 31, 1928, page 1; October 3, 1929, page 5; February 16, 1933, page 1; July 6, 1933, page 1; February 21, 1935, page 3; Similkameen Star, November 20, 1941, page 1; October 25, 1951, page 4