West Coast Region ~ Bay St. George District

Surnames

Les Cormier

Source:  Microfilm # N31067 (National Archive)
A series of articles published in the L'Evangeline (Newspaper) , 
Monton, N.B.

"Les Acadiennes de Terre-Neuve"    
by Thomas W. Leblanc published : 18 March 1948
 
Les Cormier 

En, 1847, le Captitain Firmin Cormier de Margaree, Cap-Breton, qui avait passe 
plusieurs annees aux Iles-Madeleine, traversa sur a goelette a Picadilly, 
Port-au-Port, Terre-Neuve avec sa famille et deux autres familles du nom de 
LeBlanc.

Peu de temps apres son arrivee,  il quitta Picadilly avec ses deux filscomme 
equipage pour se rendre en Nouvell-Ecosse, croyant revenir avant l'hiver des 
provisions pour les trois familles. Mais il ne put revinir qu'au  printemps, ce 
qui a occasionne beaucoup de souffrances et de privations pour les trois familles 
etablies a Picadilly.

L'annee suivante, le Captitaine Cormier vint habiter Sandy Point a St. Georges, 
et il continua de commander des goelettes pour des compagnies anglaises, 
francaises et ecossaises.

Firmin Cormier s'est noye avec tout son equipage quand ja goelette "Bloomer" 
qu'il commandait (s)ombra entre Port Hood, Cap-Breton et St. Georges, T.N.  Tout
les membres de l'equipage etaient ecossais sauf le Captitaine Cormier.  Les 
descendants de Firmin Cormier sont nombreaux a tere-Neuve, surtout a Stephenville.

Une autre famille de Cormier a fait un bref sejour a Terre-Neuve: celle d'Isadore
Cormier, qui vint des Iles Madeleine a St-Georges vers 1850.  Apres quelques 
annee a Sandy Point, cette famille retourna aux Iles Madeleine, ou l'on doit 
encore trouver de ses descendants.


(Translation by Leo Doucet)

In, 1847, Captain Firmin Cormier from Margaree, Cape Breton, who had spent several
years on the Magdellan Islands, crossed on his goelette to Picadilly, Port-au-Port,
Newfoundland with his family and two other families of the LeBlanc name.  Shortly 
after his arrival, he left Picadilly with two sons for crewmembers to go to Nova 
Scotia, believing that he would return before the winter with provisions for the 
three families. But he returned only in the spring, which caused much  sufferings 
for the three families in Picadilly.  The following year, Captain Cormier lived 
at Sandy Point in St. George’s, and he continued to control goëlettes for English, 
French and Scottish companies.  Firmin Cormier was lost with all his crew when his 
goëlette “Bloomer” sank between Port Hood, Cape Breton and St. George’s, Newfoundland. 
All crew  members were Scottish except for Captain Cormier.  The descendants of Firmin
Cormier are great in number within the province of Newfoundland, especially in the 
Stephenville area.  Another Cormier family stayed for a short time in Newfoundland:
that of Isadore Cormier, who came from the Magdellan Islands to St. George’s about 1850. 
After a few years at Sandy Point, this family went back to the Magdellan Islands, where
one would still find his descendants.


The Article was written by Thomas Leblanc of St. George's in 1948
& published in the l'Evangeline Newspaper of New Brunswick. 
It was transcribed by Laverne (Perrier) Cormier
and posted to the Internet in September 1998 by Stephen Baker.