30 Facts About Adriane Carr

Adriane Carr was born on 1952 and is a Canadian academic, activist and retired green politician.

Adriane Carr served on Vancouver City Council from 2011 until her resignation in 2025.

Adriane Carr was the sole candidate of the Green Party of Vancouver for one of 10 seats in the at-large election held in the 2011 municipal election.

Adriane Carr resigned in January 2025, citing disagreements with Mayor Ken Sim.

Adriane Carr was born in Vancouver and raised in the Lower Mainland and the Kootenays.

Adriane Carr earned a master's degree in urban geography from the University of British Columbia in 1980 and taught at Langara College.

Adriane Carr was a co-founder of the Green Party of British Columbia, the first Green Party in North America, and served as its unpaid spokesperson from 1983 to 1985.

Adriane Carr left teaching at Langara College in 1989 to work full-time for the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, having been a volunteer for WCWC from shortly after it was co-founded by her later-to-be husband, Paul George and Richard Krieger.

Adriane Carr left the organization in 2000 to run for the leadership of the Green Party of British Columbia.

Adriane Carr has been the BC Green Party leader on two separate occasions.

Adriane Carr was the party's leader in the 1983 provincial election, held shortly after the party's founding.

Adriane Carr ran in the two-member electoral district of Vancouver-Point Grey, and finished last in a field of eight candidates with 1549 votes.

Adriane Carr ran as a Green candidate for the Vancouver School Board in 1984, but after this, besides maintaining her membership, she had little further involvement with the provincial Green Party until the late 1990s.

Adriane Carr emerged as a rival to Parker at the party's 1999 policy convention.

Adriane Carr ran in the 2001 election in the riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast, against former Liberal leader and then-NDP cabinet minister Gordon Wilson.

Adriane Carr was included in the televised leaders' debate along with Liberal leader Gordon Campbell and NDP premier Ujjal Dosanjh.

Adriane Carr finished third in her riding with 6316 votes, against 6349 for Wilson and 9904 for victorious Liberal Harold Long.

In 2004, Adriane Carr ran for the Greens in a by-election in Surrey-Panorama Ridge, held following the resignation of Liberal Gulzar Singh Cheema.

Adriane Carr finished a distant third with 8.4 percent of the vote as the NDP recovered to win the riding.

Adriane Carr was a vocal supporter of a mixed-member proportional electoral system.

Adriane Carr was expected to be strong competition in her riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast but finished third again with 25 percent of the vote, 14 percent behind the victorious NDP candidate.

At the annual Green convention following the 2005 election, Adriane Carr received 85 percent approval in a confidence vote among party membership.

Fry was re-elected, while Adriane Carr garnered 18.3 percent of the vote.

Adriane Carr had the Green Party's fourth highest percentage of votes in the nation.

Adriane Carr ran once more against Hedy Fry in the 2011 federal election, receiving 15.4 percent of the vote and placing fourth.

Adriane Carr ran for city council in the 2011 municipal election as the lone Green Party of Vancouver candidate.

Adriane Carr received 48,648 votes, putting her in 10th place, 91 votes ahead of the next candidate below her, but securing her election as a city councillor.

Adriane Carr was the first Green councillor ever elected in a major Canadian city.

Adriane Carr was re-elected to city council in the 2022 Vancouver election after declining to run for mayor.

Adriane Carr placed eighth with 41,831 votes, the highest vote share for a non-ABC Vancouver candidate, though the Greens' popular vote declined along with most other centre-left parties, while the centre-right ABC councillors formed a new council majority.