Obituary: Jacques de Courville Nicol fought for bilingual Ottawa

Jacques de Courville Nicol, a leading advocate for official bilingualism in Ottawa and the province, died Friday at the age of 76, following a long illness.
Born in Montreal’s Outremont area, Nicol’s family moved to Sudbury when he was a child.
He graduated from Laurentian University and then studied law at University of Ottawa.
At the age of 23, he was picked by then-prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau to promote Canada’s two official languages.
“I walked around the co