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Killam, Dorothy Johnston
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1900-1965
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Dorothy Johnston Killam was born in St. Louis, MS in 1900. Her father was a wealthy banker. She met her husband in Montreal in 1921. Dorothy and Izaak were based primarily in Montreal but had houses around the world. She was known to be a very savvy business-minded person, and learnt much about the business world from her husband. When Izaak passed away in 1955, she took over the management of his estate. She doubled the Izaak Killam estate in the ten years before she passed away, and donated millions of dollars to create programs like the Canada Council for the Arts. When she died in 1965 her estate was $93 million dollars. Her fortune created the Killam Trusts for higher education, the Killam Memorial Library at Dalhousie, the IWK Health Centre, and $12M more for the Canada Council for the Arts. “As of 2015, more than 6000 scholars and researchers had benefited from Killam Trust awards.”
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Killam, Izaak Walton (1885-1955)
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Dalhousie University. University Libraries. Killam Memorial Library (1971-)
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Killam Memorial Library was built using monies left to Dalhousie University by Dorothy Killam, for whom the library is named.