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

Chief Peter Perro.

Over the past few years I’ve written many stories about some of my old friends and I thought I had written about my late friend Chief Peter Pero 1916 – 1989, and just discovered I haven’t. I will now correct that omission and pay tribute to a friend that I admired and trusted.

I first met Peter back in the early 1950s when I was quite young. The way our acquaintance began was that I used to be his chauffeur from time to time during the summer months when I came home from the States for a vacation. Like many of our people Peter had a drinking problem which, to his credit, he eventually overcame, thus the chauffeur need at the time.

Peter originally c ...

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