Frank Killam

Frank Killam (September 3, 1843 – April 23, 1911) was a Canadian politician and a member of the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Yarmouth in Nova Scotia.

[1] He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1843, the son of Thomas Killam[1] and Elizabeth Gale Dudman, and was educated in Yarmouth and Sackville, New Brunswick.

[2] On September 21, 1867, he lost his left arm when a cannon prematurely detonated during an election celebration.

He was re-elected three times before being defeated in the 1882 federal election.

[1] In 1870, he was the president of the Western Counties Railway Company.