by Daniel N. Paul, CM, ONS, Mi’kmaw Elder and Historian

Waycobah Chief Wayne Googoo: 1945 – 1976

Wayne was from Wagmatcook, however, when he was six years of age Michael P. and Mary Googoo moved him to Waycobah and raised him. When a young man he found the love of his life and married Mary Helen (Molly) Googoo. She told him that she would give him a son for his birthday, she was right on, on October 26, 1968, his birthday, their son Morley was born. They also had a daughter Doris. At the age of 26, in 1971, he was elected Chief of We’koqma’q (at the time the Band was known as the Whycocomagh Band). He served until his death in 1976. His beloved Molly went to join him in the Land of Souls on March 7, 2007.

Their son Morley, which would have made Wayne a very proud father, was elected Chief of the Waycobah Mi’kmaw community for nine terms, one term as Councillor, and is now in his third three year term as AFN Regional Chief ...