[1] He later served in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II before moving to North Bay, where he worked as a building contractor.
[3] In 1955, he sent a list of parking tickets to the city manager with a request that they be "fixed", forcing council to take a vote to explicitly ban the practice.
[4] In 1958, he entered the nomination contest to be the Progressive Conservative candidate in Nipissing in the 1958 federal election, losing to former city councillor John Kennedy.
[8] In 1967, he fended off an attempt to unseat him on the grounds of insolvency, after a businessman for whom he had previously cosigned a car loan declared bankruptcy.
[13] In 1975, Dickerson was arrested in a police raid on the Canton Gardens restaurant in North Bay, when he was found playing poker in an illegal gambling room.
[17] On July 7, 1980, judge Ward Allen of the Nipissing District Court found Dickerson guilty of the charges, ordering him immediately removed from office and barring him from running in any election for two years.