Welcome to Gillam ...

Although we found mention of Gillam during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Gillam was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

We've added Gillam to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Gillam, please Contact Us.

Gillam is 250 feet [76 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Gillam might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: CST- Heure Normale du Centre (HNC), CDT- Heure Avancée du Centre (HAC).

Area Codes for Gillam: 204, 431 & 584<3>

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Manitoba: https://www.gov.mb.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>	If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Gillam and then turned west". While Gillam could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Gillam as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Gillam could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around Gillam - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>	When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 204 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 431 or 584. New phone numbers in the Gillam area will be assigned with one of these codes: 204, 431 or 584. As a result, placing a call in the Gillam area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).