Charlie Parker (Nova Scotia politician)

Charlie Parker
Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
for Pictou West
In office
August 5, 2003 – October 8, 2013
Preceded byMuriel Baillie
Succeeded byKarla MacFarlane
In office
March 24, 1998 – July 27, 1999
Preceded byDon McInnes
Succeeded byMuriel Baillie
Speaker of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia
In office
June 25, 2009 – January 11, 2011
Preceded byAlfie MacLeod
Succeeded byGordie Gosse
Minister of Natural Resources
In office
January 11, 2011 – October 22, 2013
Preceded byJohn MacDonell
Succeeded byZach Churchill
Personal details
Born1951
Durham, Nova Scotia
Political partyNDP
ResidenceLoch Broom, Nova Scotia
Occupationeducator

Charles Lewis Parker is a Canadian former educator and politician who represented the constituency of Pictou West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1998 to 1999, and from 2003 to 2013. He sat as a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.[1]

Parker was born and raised on his family's farm in Durham. A graduate of West Pictou District High School, Parker is a graduate of the Nova Scotia Teachers College and he also graduated from Acadia University with a BSc. Parker worked as a public school teacher as well as owning and operating a garden centre/nursery and was a realtor. Parker lives in Loch Broom and is married with two children.

  1. ^ "Electoral History for Pictou West" (PDF). Nova Scotia Legislative Library. Retrieved 2018-04-03.

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