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  • Victor Odlum
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  • Victor Wentworth Odlum, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (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 Boer War, the First World War and Second World War
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serviceyears
  • 1900
Birth Date
  • 1880-10-21
Commands
  • 2
Branch
Name
  • Victor Odlum
Caption
  • General Victor Odlum by Jack Boothe, 1936.
Birth Place
  • Cobourg, Ontario
Awards
death date
  • 1971-04-04
Rank
Image size
  • 250
Allegiance
  • Canada
Battles
  • Boer War and the First and Second World Wars
laterwork
  • journalist, soldier, diplomat
abstract
  • Victor Wentworth Odlum, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (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 Boer War, the First World War and Second World War