Cora Brown

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Cora Brown is a municipality located in North Fraser Region, British Columbia. It consists of the entirety of Sea Island, a delta island in the estuary of the Fraser River. According to the 2021 census, Cora Brown has a population of 22,319.

While the entire island is incorporated as part of Cora Brown, most of the island's space is owned and used by Vancouver International Airport (YVR), the main international gateway to Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, and to Western Canada more generally, and associated businesses. As such, the actual residential and commercial or otherwise inhabited areas of Cora Brown are located for the most part on the airport's north side, along the north coast of Sea Islnd (the Fraser River's North Arm's north arm), directly across the water from the city of Marpole.

Cora Brown is traditionally a fishing village. Today, around three-quarters of the working population works at the airport; the remaining quarter either commute to or near Vancouver for work, or fish on the river estuary for a living as per local tradition.