Charles Dickie

Charles Herbert Dickie (14 September 1859 16 September 1947) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Beachville, Canada West and became a lumberman, miner and railway employee.

Charles Dickie
Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for Cowichan
In office
1901–1903
Preceded byTheodore Davie
Succeeded byJohn Newell Evans
Member of Parliament
for Nanaimo
In office
December 1921  October 1935
Preceded byJohn Charles McIntosh
Succeeded byJames Samuel Taylor
Personal details
Born
Charles Herbert Dickie

(1859-09-14)14 September 1859
Beachville, Canada West
Died16 September 1947(1947-09-16) (aged 88)
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)1) Eliza E. Calvert
m. 22 September 1888 (died 1926)
2) Edith (Bennett) Collings
m. 19 April 1930[1]
Professionlumberman, miner, railway employee

Dickie attended schools at Beachville and at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was a Conservative provincial politician at the Cowichan riding from 1901 to 1903.[1]

He was elected to Parliament at the Nanaimo electoral district riding in the 1921 general election then re-elected there in 1925, 1926 and 1930. Dickie was defeated in the 1935 federal election by James Samuel Taylor of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

References

  1. Normandin, A.L. (1932). Canadian Parliamentary Guide.


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