Gilbert Clarke Killam (1863 – 1945)
	
G.C. Killam was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. In 1903, Killam was living in Dawson where he worked as a custom agent. He submitted the design for a stone building as a Carnegie Library to be built in town. His design was not chosen, but the //Yukon Sun// called it an architectural dream.((“Gilbert Clarke Killam.” //Find a Grave,// 2018 website: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144472075/gilbert-clarke-killam)) 
After the Caribou Hotel in Carcross burned in December 1909, Davy Cochran purchased a two-story frame building at Conrad from Wm. Robison and rafted the building material to Carcross. G.C. Killam designed the plans for the new Caribou Hotel.((R.L. Polk Co., //Alaska Yukon Gazetteer & Directory 1915-16; Weekly Star// (Whitehorse), 11 February 1910.)) 

Gilbert Killam and his wife  were living in Vancouver in 1911 and moved to Smithers around 1913 where Gilbert advertised his services as an architect.((“Gilbert Clarke Killam.” //Find a Grave,// 2018 website: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144472075/gilbert-clarke-killam)) He  lived in Smithers from 1913 to 1917 and then joined the Canadian army to serve in the First World War.((Bulkley Valley Museum, Smithers, Gilbert Clarke Killiam collection description.))