C.H. Dickie - one more week!

Having finished Charles Herbert Dickie’s sprightly memoir over the past six weeks, concluding with his firsthand observations of the R.B. Bennett and Mackenzie King governments at the start of the Great Depression, it’s tempting for me, as editor, to close the file.

But there’s more to Dickie’s story, thanks to numerous articles that appeared over the years in the Cowichan Leader. From the time of his involvement in the copper mining strike on Mount Sicker, he was considered to be newsworthy; as indeed he was.

So I ask readers to indulge both Mr. Dickie, and me, in allowing him one more week to summarize his out-of-parliament activities, many of which took place in the Cowichan Valley.

I do so in the belief that most readers will have come to share my admiration for this genial, hearty frontiersman who went on to serve 14 years in Parliament. His long out of print and extremely rare memoir, Out of the Past, is, in my opinion at least, a thoroughly enjoyable tale of a fascinating pioneer.

If only more of our trailblazers had set down their lives on paper!

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