Career
He built the company to more than $1 billion of assets. However, the company went into receivership in 1987 as a result of the loss of investment value after the Canadian recession. Cormie was a Merchant Marine from 1943-1944 before receiving his Master of Laws from Harvard Law in 1946.
He co-founded the law firm Cormie Kennedy in 1954 and had a prestigious legal career.
At its peak in the 1980s, it was the largest multi-breed purebred cattle ranch in Canada and the largest private bull semen bank in the world, developing sought after bulls in the Simmental and Maine-Anjou breeds and earning $3.3 million from its prize bull, Signal.
