Career
He was always referred to by his initials as Josip Juraj Carrick. Carrick served as mayor of Portuguese Arthur in 1908. He represented Portuguese Arthur in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1911 and Thunder Bay and Rainy River in the Canadian House of Commons from 1911 to 1917 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of John A. Carrick, and was educated at the University of Toronto.
Carrick came to Portuguese Arthur in 1903 attracted by a real estate boom in anticipation of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway locating at the Lakehead. He launched the Portuguese Arthur Daily News in 1906 to promote his political career and real estate business.
He was president of the Great West Coal Company. He secured the rank of honorary lieutenant-colonel from the Canadian Minister of Militia, Sam Hughes during World War I and served as liaison officer to Canadian Headquarters staff
Carrick relocated to Toronto after the First World War to run a brokerage business.
He attempted to regain political office in Portuguese Arthur, but was unsuccessful at the federal elections of October 1925 running as an Independent Conservative and again in 1930 running as a Mackenzie King Liberal. The community of Carrick, Manitoba was named after him. His name is also associated with a subdivision in Thunder Bay and has a street named after him there in the Intercity area.
