Eric Nicol

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Eric Patrick Nicol, was born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1919.In 1921 his family relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia. Nicol attended Lord Byng Secondary School and the University of British Columbia, where he studied French. In 1941, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the university. Following military service in the Second World War, Nicol returned to the University of British Columbia and earned a Master of Arts degree. He then studied at the Sorbonne in France, and lived in London, England for a few years writing comedy for the BBC. In 1951 he returned to Vancouver, where for several decades he served as a regular columnist for city's newspaper The Province.