Abbreviations used
Date July 18 1893
County Westmorland
Place Moncton
Newspaper The Times
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
John C. McCORMACK's little boy, a child 4 years of age, was drowned in Black River near Oxford, N.S. Tuesday. He left home shortly after 9 o'clock and that afternoon his body was found in the river, leaning against the bank with feet on the bottom of the river and his head six inches under water.