Albert Clements Killam

Albert Clements Killam (January 1904)

Albert Clements Killam (born September 18, 1849 in Yarmouth , Nova Scotia , † March 1, 1908 ) was a Canadian lawyer who was a judge at the Supreme Court of Canada between 1903 and 1905 .

Life

After attending school, Killam, son of George Killam and Caroline Clements, first completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto , which he completed in 1872 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then enrolled as a student at the Law Society of Upper Canada and completed a then customary law degree at the law firm Crooks, Kingsmill & Cattanach in Toronto . After his admission to the bar by the Ontario Bar , he took up a practice as a lawyer in Windsor in 1877 , before he moved to Winnipeg in 1879 and was also admitted to the bar by the Manitoba Bar .

In addition to his legal work, Killam was also politically active at times and was a member of the Manitoba Liberal Party of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba between 1883 and 1885 . He was then appointed in 1885 as a judge at the Supreme Court of Manitoba, the Court of Queen's Bench , and was a member of the chamber that tried the trial of the co-founder of the province of Manitoba and leader of the Métis Louis Riel in September 1885 . In 1899 he was appointed Chief Justice of Manitoba .

Following Killam was on August 8, 1903 by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier to judge on the Supreme Court of Canada appointed. He served on the Supreme Court until his resignation on February 6, 1905. This made him the first Manitoba judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court. After retiring from the Supreme Court, he became Chairman of the Railway Commissioner (Chief Commissioner of the Board of Railway Commissioners) and held this office until his death on March 1, 1908.

The community of Killam in the province of Alberta was named in his honor.

Web links

• Supreme Court of Canada - Portrait (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Manitoba Historical Society