peoplepill id: dave-gilmour
DG
Canada
5 views today
5 views this week
Dave Gilmour (ice hockey, born 1882)
Canadian ice hockey player

Dave Gilmour (ice hockey, born 1882)

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Canadian ice hockey player
Places
Work field
Gender
Male
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

David Gordon Gilmour (1882 – September 27, 1932) was a Canadian amateur ice hockey player for the Ottawa Silver Seven in the pre-NHL years. He was a member of the Silver Seven era winning the Stanley Cup in 1903. His brothers Suddy Gilmour and Billy Gilmour also played for Ottawa at the same time. He later became a prominent Ottawa businessman in the lumber industry.

Sporting career

As a youth, Gilmour played several sports. He played ice hockey for the junior Aberdeens before joining the senior Ottawa Hockey Club in 1897. He did not become a regular player until several years later and even then, being a centre had to share ice time with Frank McGee.

Personal

Born in 1882 in Ottawa, Gilmour was one of four sons of five children born to Mr. and Mrs. John Gilmour. The other children were Bill, Sutherland(Suddy), Ward and his sister Gilbert. Gilmour attended Ashbury College. The family business was lumber, and Gilmour owned a retail and wholesale lumber firm D.G. Gilmour and Company. His father was a partner in Gilmour and Highson Lumber. Gilmour married Roma King, daughter of Supreme Court justice George Edwin King. They had three children: daughters Hope and Vale and son John. Gilmour died of natural causes while on a hunting trip near Mullin's Lake north of Ottawa in Quebec.

Gilmour is buried at Beechwood Cemetery.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Dave Gilmour (ice hockey, born 1882) is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Dave Gilmour (ice hockey, born 1882)
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes