sentences:  In 1837, Killam became a director of the Yarmouth Marine Insurance Association; he was also a director of the Bank of Yarmouth from 1863 to 1868 and of the Yarmouth Academy.He was elected to the General Assembly of Nova Scotia for Yarmouth County in 1847 as a Reformer and served on the public accounts committee as a member and later chairman.He opposed public ownership of utilities; he was part of a private group that took over ownership of the Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph Company and opposed Joseph Howe's plans for a government-funded railway in the province.