Victor Odlum
Politician
1880 – 1971
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Who was Victor Odlum?
Victor Wentworth Odlum, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. 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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- Born
- Oct 21, 1880
Cobourg - Parents
- Nationality
- Canada
- Lived in
- Vancouver
- Died
- Apr 4, 1971
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on July 23, 2013
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