William Earle Dickey was born in Revelstoke on October 8, 1893 to early local residents William and Sarah Dickey. An accomplished musician, and a member of the Revelstoke Band and local orchestras, Dickey began working for the City of Revelstoke's electrical department as a young man and eventually became electrical superintendent for the city. For many years, Earle Dickey was the chairman of the tourism and publicity bureau of the Revelstoke Board of Trade (now the Chamber of Commerce.) In this capacity, he took photographs for local tourism brochures and sent photographs and newspaper articles on local events to the Vancouver Sun newspaper. His photographs of the Big Bend Highway and Mount Revelstoke National Park were widely distributed throughout national media. In 1920, Earle married Estelle Elizabeth Jones who came to Revelstoke in 1916 at the age of 19 to work as a cashier in C.B. Hume's General Store. Estelle was a niece of C.B. Hume's wife Emily. Earle and Estelle worked as a team, with Earle taking the photographs, and Estelle developing them in her darkroom. Estelle also hand-coloured many of the prints, and these art prints were sold worldwide. Earle Dickey died on July 24, 1954. Eight Mile Peak, towering over Eva Lake on Mount Revelstoke, was renamed Mount Dickey in his memory in December of 1954. After Earle's death, Estelle began photographing local events, taking over from where Earle left off. She sold some of her work commercially, as a portrait photographer and through postcard sales. Estelle died on November 14, 1980 in Vernon, B.C.
