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A thousand Wednesday nights
By Martin C. Barry
David and Diana Nicholson were exhausted, exhilarated, although he admitted that “We are very weary,”. Three days after a big bash marking the 1,000th Wednesday Night Salon, over an almost 20-year period, the Rosemount Avenue residents were still recovering.
Back in 1982, David and Diana […]

The Wednesday Nights Entertainments
By Diana T. Nicholson
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH ~ THE BENEFICENT KING ~ THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE ~ LORD OF THE THREE WORLDS ~ WHO SET UP THE FIRMAMENT WITHOUT PILLARS IN ITS STEAD ~ AND WHO STRETCHED OUT THE EARTH EVEN AS A BED ~ AND GRACE, AND PRAYER-BLESSING BE […]

May 2, 2001 - The Wednesday Night Millennium
“The achievement of 1000 Wednesday Nights is something of which we are all proud - not just you two. The sometimes amusing, always exciting, scintillating and informative Wednesday Nights are essential to knowledge for us all. I can remember when there have been crowds, I can remember […]

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Thank You
Dear Nonymous and A-nonymous Members
of the Self-appointed Committee for the Millennium Wednesday Night
and Honourable Guests - both present and absent
The horse designed by this committee was most certainly not a camel, but a pure Arabian steed of noble appearance and spirit.
What a MAGICAL evening you gave us […]

Education is the process through which a person moves from cohesive ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty
The Report

The debate was abbreviated on June 2 1999, on the occasion of the nine hundredth consecutive Wednesday evening salon at the Nicholsons’. The seventy or so assorted guests included academics, architects, artists, authors, economists, bankers, business […]

To David Nicholson 27 March 1997
On Sunday, the twenty-seventh day of March 1932 according to the Western calendar, in an Atlas taxi on McGregor street, owned and driven by a native of Teheran, registered as an Iranian vessel, was born a boy child named by […]

22 January 1997
Videotapes of the U.S. Presidential Inauguration launched a brief discussion of that event.
The guests, mostly experts in international aviation and international finance, then addressed the topics of the evening starting with the CBC version of the history of the Avro Arrow, The Avro Arrow: Canada’s Broken Dream, […]

The anniversary date is always a good opportunity to look back and view the events from a different point of view i.e. in hindsight. When David and Diana started these unique soirées –long, long long time, almost 14 years, ago — their first special guest was Dr. Carl Beigie –the US-made […]

True to Wednesday Night form, the 600th anniversary organized by committee on Wednesday September 1,1993, bore no resemblance to a camel. The (faxed) invitation announced accurately that “The 600th Wednesday Night Celebrations Committee has conjured up an evening of fun and fancy. The missing ingredient is you.”
The black tie affair for over 100 guests (with […]