Greetings Emily!

Doing a little snooping around, I came across the web site for the Nova
Scotia Branch 95 of the Royal Canadian Legion
(http://www.ns.legion.ca/branch95.html).  A portion of the text reads:

        "By Deed from His Majesty George V, a plot of land on main
        street, Bedford was made available to be laid out in the design
        of the NS Flag, the oldest flat in the British Empire overseas,
        granted in 1626 by King Charles the 1st. Path would form the
        Cross of St. Andrew centered by a Golden Lion. Mrs. Dorothy
        Dick, a sculptor from Toronto, who was in Halifax at the time,
        modeled the lion and Hillis and Son coast the bronze loin [sic.]
        at their foundry. Total cost $1,317.42. This was unveiled August
        5, 1931."

As it appears Dorothy Dick was from Toronto, you might contact the Art
Gallery of Ontario to inquire.  The following URL will get you to their
"Online Reference Desk" form:
www.ago.net/www/resources/research_lib/reference.cfm.  (If you'd prefer
telephone, call 416-979-6642.)  You could also contact the National
Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, likely to have some record of Dorothy Dick.

Stewart Dick (b. 1874), who may very well have been Dorothy Dick's
father, was a published author on varied art related subjects.  Some of
his titles include:

        Master painters : being pages from the romance of art
        Author: Stewart Dick
        Date: 1912
	
        Lectures on art by Stewart Dick
        Author: Institute of International Education (New York, N.Y.)
        Date: 192_?

        The Cottage Homes of England
        Author: Stewart Dick and Helen Allingham
        Description: Another classic book for admirers of Helen's work,
        Cottage Homes was originally published in 1909 and contains 64
        colour plates of Helen's cottage watercolours. The book gives a
        very informative view of the evolution and structure of the
British
        Cottage and effectively captures the world of the vanishing
        Victorian countryside.

        Arts and Crafts of Old Japan (one volume in the World of Art
series)
        Author: Steward Dick
        Publisher: A. C. McClurg (Chicago)
        Date: 1905 (1st ed.)
        Description: 152 pages, with 30 illustrations.  [Note: There
were later
        editions dating to the 1910s and 1920s.  The French edition was
        published in 1914 under the title, Les Arts & Metiers De
L'Ancien
        Japon -- revised, translated, and with an introduction by
Raphaël
        Petrucci.  There was a UK/Scottish publication in 1923.]

        The Pageant of the Forth: the History and Romances of Its Shores

        Author: Stewart Dick
        Publisher: A. C. McClurg (Chicago) & T. N Foulis (London)
        Date: 1911 (1st ed.)
        Description: 258 pages, with 24 tipped-in colour plates by
Scottish
        artists, with a study of art in Scotland.

[The first and second were found via the Art Gallery of Ontario's online
search; the third just from a simple Google search for: "stewart dick" +
watercolor; the fourth and fifth on alibris.com.]

Hope this helps . . .

Best wishes, sincerely,

Jay Heuman, Curator of Education
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Utah State University
4020 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT     84322-4020
T 435.797.0165
F 435.797.3423
 
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
Sir Charles Moser, b. 1922

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