Hamilton Livingstone "Billy" Gilmour (March 21, 1885 – March 13, 1959) was a

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professional

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player. A winger, Gilmour played for the

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in the

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. Two of his brothers, Suddy Gilmour and Dave Gilmour, also played with Ottawa. He was a member of five Ottawa

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championship teams in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1909. He also played competitively for the

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and

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. He retired from competitive ice hockey in 1909, but returned to play two games for Ottawa in the 1915–16 season.

Playing career

At 15, Gilmour played for the

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in the

intermediate division. He played two seasons with the club and joined the

for the 1903 season, where he played with his brothers Suddy and Dave. He scored seven goals in six games and was a member of the

championship team that was nicknamed the "Silver Seven", after the silver nuggets the players were given after the Stanley Cup win by team manager

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, who was a part-owner of a silver mine. Later in 1903, Gilmour moved to Montreal to attend

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, where he played college hockey, and joined Ottawa for some Stanley Cup challenge games, in the 1904 and 1905 seasons and a league game in 1906. After finishing McGill in 1907, Gilmour played one season with the

, scoring five goals in ten games. He returned to Ottawa to join the now-professional Ottawa Hockey Club for the 1908-09 season, scoring nine goals in eleven games as Ottawa won the league and another Stanley Cup championship. In 1909, Gilmour moved to Montreal, married and stopped playing competitive hockey. Gilmour did play some exhibition games for the Ottawa New Edinburghs in 1911, and played two games with the Ottawa Senators of the

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(NHA) in 1916. Gilmour was inducted into the

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in 1963.

Personal

Born in 1885 in

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, Gilmour was one of four sons of five children born to Mr. and Mrs. John Gilmour. The other children were Dave, Sutherland (Suddy), Ward and his sister Gilbert. The family business was lumber, and Gilmour's father was a partner in Gilmour and Highson Lumber. While playing ice hockey for Ottawa, Gilmour was studying engineering at

of Montreal, and later worked as an engineer. At the start of the

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Gilmour enlisted in the

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and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 1st Construction Battalion. He returned to Canada in 1919. Gilmour married Merle Woods of Montreal and moved to

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before returning to Canada in 1942 to reside in

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, where he lived for the rest of his life. Gilmour is buried at

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in Ottawa.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

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