Victor Odlum
| Victor Odlum | |
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General Victor Odlum by Jack Boothe, 1936.
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| Born |
21 October 1880 Cobourg, Ontario |
| Died | 4 April 1971 (aged 90) |
| Allegiance |
 Canada
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| Service/branch |
 Canadian Army
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| Years of service | 1900–1924; 1940–1941 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held | 2nd Canadian Infantry Division |
| Battles/wars |
Boer War World War I World War II |
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| Other work | journalist, soldier, diplomat |
Victor Wentworth Odlum, CB, CMG, DSO (21 October 1880–4 April 1971) was a Canadian journalist, soldier, and diplomat. He was a prominent member of the business and political elite of Vancouver, British Columbia from the 1920s until his death in 1971. He was a newspaper publisher, a Liberal MLA from 1924–1928, co-founder of the Non-Partisan Association in 1937, temperance advocate, one of the first directors on the board of governors that oversaw the new Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and a Canadian ambassador. He fought in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II.
Odlum was born in Cobourg, Ontario, the son of Edward Odlum (1850–1935), a notable historian and supporter of British Israelism. (A small street in Vancouver is named after the senior Odlum). When Victor was 6, his family moved to Japan for four years before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1889.
At age 19, Odlum fought in the Boer War with The Royal Canadian Regiment; upon his return, he became a newspaperman, serving as a reporter and then editor-in-chief of the Daily World. By the time he was 25, he was editor of the Vancouver World.
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Odlum received a commission as major of the 7th Battalion of the First Canadian Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, second-in-command under Lieutenant-Colonel William Hart-McHarg.
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