Vinceslas-Eugène Dick

Born on March 7, 1848, on Île d'Orléans in Quebec, Wenceslas-Eugène Dick studied at several schools before earning a medical degree in Montreal. He practiced medicine at Château-Richer while also writing for newspapers and magazines, publishing tales, poems, chronicles, and fiction.

His best-known books include L’enfant mystérieux (1890), Un drame au Labrador (1897), and Le roi des étudiants (1903). His writing often blends suspense, adventure, and scenes from Quebec life, which gives his stories both momentum and a strong sense of place.

Dick died on June 23, 1919, at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. Though not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, he remains an interesting figure in early Quebec literature: a working doctor who turned his experience, imagination, and local settings into lively popular fiction.