Pioneers

Leaving behind his parents Duncan McCormack and Ann Kelso,  John McCormack and his wife Catherine Kerr (pioneers) emigrated to Canada from the Isle of Arran, Scotland and received a land grant of 100 acres in Blackland,  New Brunswick.   John McCormack and Catherine Kerr, both of the town of Corrie, were married in Kilbride Parish  the town of Corrie on the 22nd of February 1827.   John's brother William McCormack and his wife Flora MacKenzie and family departed from the Isle of Arran at the same time, and also received a land grant of 100 acres in Blackland.

The McCormack's, the Dutch's and McCurdy's in Belldune came over on the same vessel.  They were three weeks crossing, had a heavy storm which drove them off their course and all were nearly lost.  They landed in Dalhousie, New Brunswick in June of 1832.