Career
Evans was a salesman who owned a restaurant, a bakery, a clothing store and an apartment building. Evans was Mayor of Bradford, Ontario and Warden of Simcoe County. In 1960 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a by-election.
He was re-elected in the elections in 1963, 1967, 1971 and 1975.
He served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Energy (1974) and to the Minister of Transportation and Communications. He retired from politics in 1977.