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==Early life and education== Adams was born in present-day [[Tanzania]] to Lillian and Richard Adams, Irish lay [[missionary|missionaries]] who were administering a medical clinic in the former [[Belgian Congo]]. According to family lore, a pregnant Lillian singlehandedly canoed across a narrow stretch of [[Lake Tanganyika]] so that Adams would be born in what was then the British colony of [[Tanganyika Territory|Tanganyika]] rather than in the Belgian colony his parents were working in. He grew up in [[Central Africa|Central]] and [[East Africa]]. During [[World War II]], both of Adams's parents joined the [[British Army]]. His mother as an ambulance driver and his father as an engineer, while three-year old Ian was sent to [[boarding school]]. Adams resented his parents for abandoning him at a young age. The entire family later moved to [[North America]], but Adams did so separately as a teenager, living on his own in [[Winnipeg]], where he studied fine arts at the [[University of Manitoba]].<ref name="obit"/>
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