[3] In 1928, Chick merged his businesses with those of Louis A. Merlo, D. Herbert Woollatt, and George Cross to form the Canada Paving and Supply Corporation.
[4] In 1925, Chick was elected president of the Conservative Association in the new federal riding of Essex West.
[5] He was the Conservative Party nominee in the riding of Windsor—Sandwich in the 1934 Ontario provincial election.
[12] In 1943, Chick was mentioned as a possible acting president of the NHL while Frank Calder was incapacitated by a heart ailment.
[15][16][1] He misjudged the distance to the end of a seawall, his car plunged into the water, and he drowned.