Charles Rea Dickson dating history

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Charles Rea Dickson (16 or 18 December 1858 – 9 July 1938), sometimes referred to as Charles Rae Dickson, was a Canadian physician, electrotherapist, radiologist, and advocate for the blind. He was the first academic radiologist in Toronto after being appointed as the "electrician on staff" at the Hospital for Sick Children. He was one of the first people to use X-rays until exposure from the radiation left him permanently blind. Following his blindness, he became a fervent advocate for the blind, co-founding the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (now the CNIB Foundation).