# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-odlum
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:01:42.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-odlum"
name: "Victor Odlum"
slug: "victor-odlum"
description: "Major General Victor Wentworth Odlum, CB, CMG, DSO 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 to 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."
tagline: "Canadian politician (1880–1971)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Canadian_Brigadier_General_%28V.W._Odlum%29%2C_machine_gunner%2C_reconnaissance_tank_%28Whippet%29_%2819705318170%29.jpg/330px-Canadian_Brigadier_General_%28V.W._Odlum%29%2C_machine_gunner%2C_reconnaissance_tank_%28Whippet%29_%2819705318170%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1880-10-21"
deathDate: "1971-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.54
  momentum:             1.847133757961783
  historical:           3.940029333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Odlum"
    title: "Victor Odlum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AB_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "ویکتور ونتورث اودلوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Odlum"
    title: "Victor Odlum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Wentworth_Odlum"
    title: "Victor Wentworth Odlum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7926205"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump