annual report 2001 - Killam Trusts

Izaak Walton Killam
Born in 1885 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
Died in 1955 at his Quebec fishing lodge.
Izaak Walton Killam was one of Canada's most eminent
financiers, rising from paper boy in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
to become head of Royal Securities. Having no children, Mr.
Killam and his wife Dorothy Johnston Killam devoted the
greater part of their wealth to higher education in Canada.
Notwithstanding his prodigious financial accomplishments,
Izaak Walton Killam was a very reserved man who eschewed
publicity and was virtually unknown outside a small circle of
close acquaintances.
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