Marjorie Nichols

Marjorie Ann Nichols (1943, Red Deer, Alberta - December 29, 1991, Red Deer, Alberta) Nichols' childhood was spent in Red Deer, Alberta, where she graduated from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School in 1962. In 1992, Nichols was posthumously inducted into the school's Hall of Fame, contemporaneously with fellow graduates Roland Michener (former Governor General of Canada) and James L. Foster (former Member of the Alberta Legislative Assembly), among others. In 1972, she joined the Vancouver Sun, as its bureau chief in Victoria, British Columbia. During her career as a journalist, she was a British Columbia Legislature and Ottawa Parliament Hill reporter, primarily associated with the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Journal and the Ottawa Citizen. She was a close associate of fellow journalists Allan Fotheringham, Pamela Wallin (as of 2009, a member of the Senate of Canada), Hugh Winsor, John Sawatsky and Jack Webster. Journalist Jane O'Hara, then Vancouver bureau chief for Maclean's Magazine, met Nichols in 1991, and the two collaborated on Nichols' memoir, Mark My Words: Memoirs of A Very Political Reporter, which was published posthumously, in 1992. In the memoir, Nichols was candid in relation to later career alcoholism and various affairs. Nichols left no publicly acknowledged partner.