Cormack is a farming community on the

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Foundation

After the

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, the

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allocated more than 12,000 hectares of land in the Humber River valley to returning

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. The men had to apply (163 of 217 applications were approved) and have farming experience, or be willing to take a 12-month training on the mainland. Families were provided with 20 hectares of land, a six-room house and seed money to fund buying livestock, farm equipment and a barn. By 1948, 96 farms had been started and the community named Cormack after explorer William Epps Cormack.

Later history

After a period of growth in the 1950s the population began to decline in the 1970s, with residents moving from farming to construction and other types of work. Most farms had failed because of problems getting food produced to viable markets, compounded by high costs of feed, fertilizer and transportation. By the 1976 census, there were only 20 farms while most residents worked in neighbouring Deer Lake or

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. In 1979, the Department of Rural, Agricultural and Northern Development built and equipped a centralized vegetable processing building at Cormack in an effort to combat potato dumping by mainland producers. The current government of Newfoundland runs a 243 hectare community pasture Community pasture site
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for the

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and

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of the Cormack farmers and allowing the farmers' own land to be

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for winter feed. The government also provides

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services,

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supplements, a programme of spraying and dusting for

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, and the services of a

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bull at the community

pasture Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine ...

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Cormack had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

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Town of Cormack
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cormack, Newfoundland And Labrador Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador

Foundation

Later history

Demographics

See also

References

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