Career
He later became a prominent Ottawa businessman in the lumber industry. 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.
Born in 1882 in Ottawa, Gilmour was one of four sons of five children born to Mr. and Mistress John Gilmour. Gilmour attended Ashbury College.
The family business was lumber, and Gilmour owned a retail and wholesale lumber firm Doctorate.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.
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.
