annual report 2001 - Killam Trusts
annual report 2001 - Killam Trusts 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. 4
Dorothy Brooks Killam, née Johnston Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1899 Died in 1965 at La Leopolda, her villa in France Unlike her reticent husband, Dorothy Johnston Killam was an extrovert who loved company and people generally. After she and Mr. Killam were married in 1922, they lived in Montreal, the centre of the Killam financial empire. Mr. Killam died in 1955, and it was left to Mrs. Killam to work out the details of their plan in her Will. When she died in 1965, she left their combined estates to specific educational purposes and institutions, as well as a large gift to The Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children in Halifax. 5
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Dorothy Brooks <strong>Killam</strong>, née Johnston<br />
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1899<br />
Died in 1965 at La Leopolda, her villa in France<br />
Unlike her reticent husband, Dorothy Johnston <strong>Killam</strong> was an<br />
extrovert who loved company and people generally. After<br />
she and Mr. <strong>Killam</strong> were married in 1922, they lived in<br />
Montreal, the centre of the <strong>Killam</strong> financial empire.<br />
Mr. <strong>Killam</strong> died in 1955, and it was left to Mrs. <strong>Killam</strong> to work<br />
out the details of their plan in her Will. When she died in 1965,<br />
she left their combined estates to specific educational purposes<br />
and institutions, as well as a large gift to The Izaak<br />
Walton <strong>Killam</strong> Hospital for Children in Halifax.<br />
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