Mount Killam
| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N of West Bay on Gambier Island, Howe Sound, New Westminster Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°29'19"N, 123°24'34"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 March 1949 on C.3586. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named to remember RCNVR Lieutenant David Allison Killam, DSC, from Vancouver; serving aboard HMCMTB 460 when killed in action off the coast of France 3 July 1944, age 26. With no known grave but the sea, his name is inscribed on the Halifax Memorial, panel 10. Killam was born 8 November 1917 at Vancouver and spent boyhood holidays on Gambier Island; survived by his wife Elizabeth K. Killam, and his parents Lawrence and Edith Humphrey Killam, all of Vancouver. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |