Background
He was born in Beachville, Canada West and became a lumberman, miner and railway employee.
He was born in Beachville, Canada West and became a lumberman, miner and railway employee.
Dickie attended schools at Beachville and at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was elected to Parliament at the Nanaimo 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 Company-operative Commonwealth Federation.
He was a Conservative provincial politician at the Cowichan riding from 1901 to 1903.