Career
A winger, Gilmour played for the Ottawa Hockey Club in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League. Two brothers, Suddy Gilmour and Dave Gilmour, also played with Ottawa. He also played competitively for McGill University and Montreal Victorias.
He retired from competitive ice hockey in 1909, but returned to play two games for Ottawa in the 1915-1916 season.
At 15, Gilmour played for the Ottawa Aberdeens in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League intermediate division. After finishing McGill in 1907, Gilmour played one season with the Montreal Victorias, scoring five goals in ten games.
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 National Hockey Association (NHA) in 1916.
Gilmour was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963.
Born in 1885 in Ottawa, Gilmour was one of four sons of five children born to Mr. and Mistress John Gilmour. 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 McGill University of Montreal.
Gilmour married Merle Woods of Montreal and moved to Paris, France before returning to Canada in 1942 to reside in Mount Royal, Quebec, where he lived for the rest of his life.
Gilmour is buried at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa.