Albert Clements Killam

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Albert Clements Killam (September 18, 1849 – March 1, 1908) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, politician, and railway administrator. He was the first judge from Western Canada to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada, serving as a puisne justice from August 1903 to February 1905 before becoming Chief Commissioner of the Board of Railway Commissioners.

Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to George Killam and Caroline Clements, he earned a BA from the University of Toronto in 1872 and trained as a lawyer in Toronto. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1877, practiced in Windsor, and moved to Winnipeg in 1879, where he joined the Manitoba bar. He became an examiner for the Law Society of Manitoba in 1881 and a bencher from 1882 to 1885, and was made Queen's Counsel in 1884.

Killam was elected as a Liberal to the Manitoba Legislative Assembly for Winnipeg South in 1883. He resigned in 1885 when he was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba. In 1899 he became Chief Justice of Manitoba. He joined the Supreme Court of Canada in 1903 and resigned in 1905 to head the Board of Railway Commissioners. He died in Ottawa in 1908. Killam, Alberta is named in his honour.