Legacy and Honors
- A monument marks the spot of the beginning of the expedition at Milton in Smith Sound, Trinity Bay.
- A granite cairn was erected in Newfoundland where Cormack and Sylvester crossed what is now the Bay d’Espoir Highway on their way across the vast island.
- Cormack, and an inland agricultural community on the banks of the Humber River, established in 1947, were named for him.
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