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Jim Dick

Jim joined the LCC in 1988 when he moved into his current home on Second Peninsula. He had curled previously as a member of the Royal Montreal Club (the oldest active athletic club in North America). He was runner up in the 1991 Sherman Nowe. Today, at age 92, he still curls and sweeps when he is not skip.

Jim was born in Glasgow, Scotland in October of 1916. He apprenticed as a marine engineer in Scotland and from 1939 until the end of the war he served in the Scottish Marine Auxiliary. He met his wife, Ethel Habick (a distant descendent of the Austrian Hapsburgs), when they both sang in a Presbyterian Church Choir. They were married in 1941. In 1950 he was enticed to accept a job at a Quebec City shipyard and brought his wife and 3 children over to Canada a year later. Ethel died in 1983.

Jim has always been active in the Boy Scouts and Scottish Country Dancing.
In 1970, he semi retired and moved to Mahone Bay. He became interested in photography and pottery and opened a gift shop opposite Teasers from which he sold some of his own creations. He later worked as a consulting engineer in Truro and in Lunenburg for ABCO.

Jim has put his Scottish country dancing on hold since his recent hip replacement. His current interests include photography, crosswords, music, reading and watching Jeopardy on TV.  He keeps in touch with his family via the internet as well as traveling to visit his son, Martin, in Toronto and his daughter, Muriel, in Winnipeg.
 

(Click on photos for full sized view)

1 - 1981 - Jim's & Ethel's 40th wedding anniversary
     with son Martin, wife Ethel (deceased), daughter
    Muriel, & daughter Jessica (deceased)
2 - Jim's six year old golden retriever named Chimo,
      meaning "I am friendly" in the Inuktitut language
3 - Sunrise over Second Peninsula - a Jim Dick photo

 

 

 

 

 

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