A local First Nations community has a new chief.
We’koqma’q band members elected Annie Bernard-Daisley Wednesday night.
Bernard-Daisley, who defeated former chief Rod Googoo and two other candidates, spent six years as a band councillor.
She’s also the president of the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association.
Voters elected 10 band councillors; incumbents Stuart Basque, Cyrus Bernard, John Leonard Bernard, Tiny Cremo, Steven Googoo and Jason Bernard were re-elected.
Four newly-elected members will join them at the council table- Wallace Bernard, Peter Googoo, Stewart Peters and Brandon Poulette.
