Nancy Moote
She was an journalist and teacher. She attended Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, graduating with a BSc in biochemistry and computer science. She later moved to Montreal, where she worked as a research scientist, before spending a year traveling alone in Southeast Asia.
Nancy moved to B.C. to pursue a degree in writing at the University of Victoria. In a journalism internship on the Sunshine Coast she found her next calling and began a ten-year career as a journalist. She later brought her intelligence and wit to a third career as a high school teacher.
On the Sunshine Coast Nancy met her future husband, Patrick Dickie, and embarked on a family life of gardening, cooking, dogs, outdoor adventures, and raised two daughters.