Sheila Nicols was President of the Maple Ridge Historical Society for many years where she was chief spokesperson as well as being instrumental in the founding of the Maple Ridge Museum.
Sheila was a volunteer museum curator when the curator position was first funded as a salaried position. She remained on the Society board first as President, then Past President, and finally Director until 2019. Sheila helped write Maple Ridge: A History of Settlement, published in 1972, and wrote a history column for the local paper, some of which were compiled into Looking Back published in 2014.
