Wa-gmat-cook | Wagmatcook First Nation
Community Profile
- The Wagmatcook First Nation is a Mi'kmaq community situated on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, with a rich cultural heritage and strong connection to traditional lands.
- Last Updated 2025-05-20 06:53:46 UTC
- Name: Wagmatcook (ISC Code: 28)
- Former Names: Wagmatcook First Nation, Chapel Island Band
- Band Style: Mi'kmaq First Nation
- Cultural Area: Northeast Coast, Cape Breton Island
- Indigenous Language: Mi'kmaq
- Number of Registered Members: 937
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 07/04/2026
- CHIEF: NORMAN BERNARD
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:9
- NORMAN BERNARD
- EVAN GOOGOO
- CORNELIA PECK
- TRAVIS ISADORE
- RICHARD PIERRO
- KIMBERLY DENNY
- THOMAS PECK
- PETER PIERRO
- ANGELA PIERRO
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: https://wagmatcook.com/
- PHONE NUMBER: (902) 919-7800
- FAX NUMBER: (902) 295-3398
- ADDRESS: PO Box 30001, Wagmatcook, NS
- EMAILS:
- Chief NORMAN BERNARD:
- Councillor EVAN GOOGOO:
- Councillor CORNELIA PECK:
- Councillor TRAVIS ISADORE:
- Councillor RICHARD PIERRO:
- Councillor KIMBERLY DENNY:
- Councillor THOMAS PECK:
- Councillor PETER PIERRO:
- Councillor ANGELA PIERRO:
- General Band Office:
- Media Contact:
- Referrals Contact:
- Websites
Band Financial Statements
- 2024 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2023 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2022 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2021 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2020 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2019 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2018 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2017 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2016 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2015 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2014 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2013 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2012 - Wagmatcook20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Wagmatcook20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Wagmatcook20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Wagmatcook20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Wagmatcook20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Wagmatcook20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Wagmatcook20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Wagmatcook20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Wagmatcook20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Wagmatcook20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Wagmatcook20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Wagmatcook20012002.pdf
Band Council Remuneration
- 2024 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2023 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2022 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2021 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2020 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2019 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2018 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2017 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2016 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2015 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2014 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2013 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
Laws, Bylaws, and Codes
Intergovernmental Agreements
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6042
MALAGAWATCH 4
661.3 Hectares
62 KM SW/SO OF/DE SYDNEY
[-33.8688197, 151.2092955] -
ISC Code: 6046
WAGMATCOOK 1
388.6 Hectares
51 KM W/O OF/DE SYDNEY
[-33.8688197, 151.2092955] -
ISC Code: 6045
MARGAREE 25
0.8 Hectares
68.8 KM NW OF/DE SYDNEY
[-33.8688197, 151.2092955]
- Encompassing Cape Breton Island’s northeastern coastal regions
- Traditionally used hunting, fishing, and gathering lands along the Bras d’Or Lake
- Includes territories in current-day Victoria County, Nova Scotia
- Historically nomadic territory with seasonal migration patterns
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Wagmatcook First Nation hosts first powwow in 15 years
- RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: Inside Wagmatcook's Gladue court
- Super Ne’le’k: Jeff Ward relocates to Wagmatcook as new Director of Community Culture and Heritage
- Local Native Americans Seek Action On Unsolved Murders And Disappearances Of Indigenous Girls And Women
- 'The game symbolizes who I am,' says Wagmatcook elder and undefeated Waltes champion, Molly Pierro
- Preserving Mi’kmaq culture through storytelling
- Indigenous court opens in Wagmatcook First Nation
- Mi'kmaw-led conservation trust takes over Mary Harper Nature Reserve in Cape Breton
- Looking ahead to the North American Indigenous Games 2023
- Province, Mi'kmaq to share governance of Kluskap Wilderness Area in Cape Breton
- Some N.S. Mi'kmaw communities still without power after Fiona's devastating winds
- Wagmatcook celebrates grand opening of courthouse
- ‘For the Mi’kmaq, this is like the Olympics,’ Wagmatcook excited to host 2025 Mi’kmaw Summer Games
- Cape Breton's new Indigenous court sparks interest across Canada
- Visiting old friends and meeting new core to Mi’kmaw Games
- SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Honouring truth, reconciliation, and treaties across Unama'ki
- 'A wealth of opportunities'; Wagmatcook First Nation celebrates partnership launch with Breton Air
- Indigenous cultures celebrated at Celtic Colours International Festival
- Indigenous-led alert system for N.S. Mi'kmaw communities ready to roll out
- First Nation wants Mi'kmaw woman's human rights complaint 'disposed of,' a year after her death
- Indigenous tourism champion in Cape Breton
- Cape Breton Mi'kmaq and Gaels gather in Wagmatcook
- Wagmatcook First Nation teen chosen for program to support potential Olympians
- Tui’kn Partnership launches Baby Smiles ~ Weskewikwa'sit mijua'ji’j, a children’s book for healthy, happy baby teeth
- Visiting old friends and meeting new core to Mi’kmaw Games
- RCMP made errors in Wagmatcook shooting: commission
- ‘Total shock’: Mi’kmaw MP Jaime Battiste fighting boundary changes in his riding
- Super Ne’le’k: Jeff Ward relocates to Cape Breton's Wagmatcook as new director of Community Culture and Heritage
- In search for alternatives to jail, special court to open on First Nation
- Presiding judge at Wagmatcook court was force behind on-reserve justice
- Wagmatcook celebrates opening of new learning centre, bursary donation
- Ceremony marks opening of first-of-its kind Indigenous court in Wagmatcook
- Wagmatcook principal has ideas for much-needed funding promised to First Nations in federal budget
- Firefighters from across Cape Breton team up to learn lifesaving skills
- Jenn Grant, Morgan Toney win big at 2024 East Coast Music Awards
- Indigenous tourism champion in Cape Breton
- Father of Cassidy Bernard's twins charged with second-degree murder in her death
- B.C.'s Indigenous court system continues to grow with new location in Williams Lake
- Sixty acres of land in Cape Breton given back to Mi'kmaq community
- Cape Breton man pleads guilty to manslaughter in 2018 death of Cassidy Bernard
- Nova Scotia set to mark grand opening of Indigenous court
- Ceremony held to mark grand opening of Nova Scotia Indigenous court
- Wagmatcook seeks federal shooting probe
- Cape Breton community explores name change
- Christmas comes early with funding for new homes in Wagmatcook First Nation
- Cape Breton University valedictorian plans future in creating more Mi'kmaq history, heritage curriculum for Nova Scotia schools
- Cape Breton Mi'kmaw community to receive $125M in land settlement
- Cape Breton community explores name change
- Indigenous-led alert system for N.S. Mi’kmaq communities ready to roll out
Academic Research
Academic Research
- “Two‐Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management
- Mi'kmaq Knowledge of Species at Risk in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
- A combination of four planning models for use in First Nations environmental health
- First Nations data sovereignty in Canada
- Aboriginal Cultural Tourism-Land Of The Fog
- Identifying useful approaches to the governance of indigenous data
- Wksitnuow wejkwapniaqewa-Mi'kmaq: A voice from the people of the dawn
- First Nations Community Planning Model
- Indigenous peoples and water: Governing across borders
- Assessing Sustainable Building Technologies from a First Nations Perspective: The Community Plan as an Analysis Framework
- Mi'kmaq Knowledge of Species at Risk in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
- A combination of four planning models for use in First Nations environmental health
- Indigenous peoples and water: Governing across borders
- TUBERCULOSIS: FIRST NATIONS AND NURSES ROLE
- L'nuita'simk Kina'matneweyiktuk: Knowing, Being and Doing Education the Mi'kmaw Way.
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