List of Nova Scotia Opposition Leaders
Name Party Term
Hiram Blanchard Liberal Conservative 1867-1874
Simon H. Holmes Conservative 1875-1878
N/A Liberal 1879-1882
Adam C. Bell Liberal Conservative 1883-1886
William McKay Liberal Conservative 1887-1890
C.H . Cahan Liberal Conservative 1891-1894
William McKay Liberal Conservative 1895-1897
Charles S. Wilcox Liberal Conservative 1898-1901
Charles E. Tanner Liberal Conservative 1902-1908
Charles S. Wilcox Liberal Conservative 1909
John M. Baillie Liberal Conservative 1910-1911
Charles E. Tanner Liberal Conservative 1912-1916
W.L . Hall Liberal Conservative 1917-1920
Daniel G. McKenzie United Farmers / Labour 1921-1925
William Chisholm Liberal 1926-1930
Alexander S. MacMillan Liberal 1931-1933
Gordon S. Harrington Conservative 1934-1937
Percy C. Black Conservative 1938-1939
Fred M. Blois Conservative 1940
Leonard W. Fraser Conservative 1941
Leaders of the Opposition of the Province of Nova Scotia , since Confederation ( 1867 )
This is a list of Leaders of the Opposition party in the Nova Scotia Legislature, both as a colony and a Province of Canada. Since 1928, when its upper house, the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia was abolished, the province has had a unicameral parliamentary government. From Confederation, however, Nova Scotia has exclusively followed the modern Westminster convention whereby the leader of the opposition is the leader of the party that controls the second most seats in the House of Assembly.