Yukon who is who

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.¹⁾ 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.²⁾

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.³⁾ He lived in Smithers from 1913 to 1917 and then joined the Canadian army to serve in the First World War.⁴⁾