(17 Feb.1906-25 Dec. 1980), telephone manager. (J. J. McCormick, John Joe McCormick, “John Joseph”) Born in Lochiel Township, GC. Parents: Duncan McCormick and his wife Annie Morris. His education was in local schools. On 18 Sept. 1933 he was married to Janet C. McDonald. (children: 1) Commonly referred to by the name “John Joseph,” he was widely known in northern GC as the stern, resourceful, endlessly hard-working manager of the Glengarry Telephone Company from 1942 to 1966. When the Glengarry Telephone Co. (founded 1907) was sold to Bell at the end of 1966 and ceased to exist as a separate system, it had about 640 subscribers. John Joseph McCormick died at his son’s home in Ottawa. Roman Catholic. John Joseph McCormick published newspaper articles on the history of the Glengarry Telephone Company and of St. Alexander’s Parish, Lochiel (Glengarry News 21 Dec. 1966, 30 Nov. 1972) and he contributed information to Thelma McDonald and Mary Devine’s A Genealogy of the McCormicks of Glengarry (1984), the work abbreviated McCormicks in the notes to the present volume. His wife died in Alexandria 14 Feb. 1995, aged 92. (her obituary, GN 22 Feb. 1995) See also W. J. MacKinnon.
McCormicks 111-114 (with portrait), 150 * his letter of tribute to Fr C. F. Gauthier, Glengarry News 1 July 1976 * Basil McCormick, A Souvenir of the Glengarry Telephone Co. Ltd. (1999) pp. [70]: history, by J. J. McCormick’s son; much information on the co. and McCormick, illust., portrait * Glengarry Telephone Co.: MacGillivray & Ross 346-352; the old telephone books are themselves records of this company; company sold, GN 21 Dec. 1966