BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRO-CANADIAN " WAYNE ADAMS " IS A FORMER CANADIAN PROVINCIAL POLITICIAN WHO WAS THE FIRST BLACK CANADIAN PROVINCIAL MEMBER OF THE NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY AND CABINET MINISTER : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

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Wayne Adams

Wayne Adams
Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Preston
In office 1993–1998
Preceded by	The riding was created in 1993.
Succeeded by	Yvonne Atwell
Personal details
Born	1943 (age 70–71) Halifax, Nova Scotia
Political party	Liberal

Wayne Adams, CM ONS (born 1943) is a former Canadian provincial politician who was the first Black Canadian member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and cabinet minister.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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 1998by the NDP candidate, Yvonne Atwell.^[2]

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.