Wayne Adams

Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Wayne Adams Template:Post-nominals (born 1943) is a Canadian politician who was the first Black Canadian member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and cabinet minister.

Early life

Wayne Adams was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1943.

Adams was first elected to the Halifax Municipal Council in 1979 and was re-elected five times. He was deputy mayor from 1982 to 1983.^[1]

A Nova Scotia Liberal, he was elected in the 1993 Nova Scotia general election in the riding of Preston. He was the Minister of the Environment, Minister responsible for the Emergency Measures Act, and the Minister responsible for the Nova Scotia Boxing Authority in the governments of first John Savage (1993–1997) and then Russell MacLellan (1997–1998). He was defeated in 1998 by the NDP candidate, Yvonne Atwell.^[2]

1998 Nova Scotia General Election
Party		Vote	%
Template:Canadian party colour \|	Yvonne Atwell	1,777	42.99
Template:Canadian party colour \|	Wayne Adams	1,548	37.45
Template:Canadian party colour \|	Ross D. Isenor	809	19.57

1993 Nova Scotia General Election
Party		Vote	%
Template:Canadian party colour \|	Wayne Adams	1,872	38.57
	David Hendsbee	1,381	24.46
Template:Canadian party colour \|	Darryl Gray	1,016	25.66
Template:Canadian party colour \|	Yvonne Atwell	584	12.03

In 2003, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour.

In 2011, he was invested as a member of the Order of Nova Scotia.