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Victor Wentworth Odlum fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1890-1994.

Reference:

R4925-0-5-E, MG30-E300

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art, Objects (including medals and pins), Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102583

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Victor Wentworth Odlum fonds
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Fonds includes:

76 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1890-1994.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

11.65 m of textual records.
165 photographs : b&w.
21 prints photomechanical prints, colour lithographs, postcards.
29 medals, badges, armbands and pennants.
6 drawings pen and black ink, pastel, watercolour.
929 maps
1 atlas

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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Victor Odlum collection [graphic material]

Victor Odlum collection [graphic material]

V.W. Odlum collection [graphic material]

General Victor Wentworth Odlum collection [object]

General Victor Wentworth Odlum Collection [graphic material]
Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of personal, semi-official and official papers reflecting Victor Odlum's duties as military officer, diplomat and newspaper man, with personal and other family correspondence and memorabilia.

The fonds also contains photographs depicting the career of Major-General V.W. Oldham as journalist, soldier, and diplomat; military service in World War I and World War II; as High Commissioner to Australia, 1942; Canadian Ambassador to China and Turkey; portraits of family and friends; group of men in a trench; Andy Rutherford, W. Applegate and others at Chungo Creek, Brazeau, September 1938; "F" Company, 6th D.C.O.R., Vancouver, British Columbia, ca. 1902-1905; portrait of Gen. V.W. Odlum and of President Harry S. Truman and Lloyd Odlum (possibly), 1948; views of Ottawa, Ontario, Vancouver, and Victoria, British Columbia.

Also included are 16 postcards of the Mobilization Camp of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Valcartier, Quebec, 1914; prints by F.T. Bush of scenes at Ypres; as well as a portrait reproduction print of Kemal Atatuk. The fonds also contains drawings collected by Victor Wentworth Odlum, some of which relate to his diplomatic postings; drawings possibly by Wentworth's China secretary Ingeborg Anderson and caricatures possibly by John G. Little relating to economic issues.

Objects include medals, badges, pins, tags, armband, pennant, and coin, which relate principally to the South Africa War, World War I and World War II.

Provenance:

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Odlum, Victor, 1880-1971

Additional name(s):

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Odlum, Victor, 1880-1971

Biography/Administrative history:

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Odlum, Victor, 1880-1971 : Victor Wentworth Odlum, soldier, journalist, diplomat, was born and educated in Cobourg, Ont. Years later he completed his studies at Columbia College, British Columbia, and the University of Toronto. In 1899 Victor and his younger brother enlisted in the Royal Canadian Regiment and served in the South African campaign. Following the war Victor returned to British Columbia where he worked for the Nelson Daily News and then the Vancouver Daily World. He became managing editor and later co-owner of the Vancouver Daily World.

In 1914 Odlum resumed active military service as Major with the 7th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. In 1915 he became Lieutenant-Colonel in command of this battalion, and in 1916 he was promoted to Brigadier-General of the 11th Infantry Brigade. From 1924 to 1928 Odlum was a Liberal member of the Provincial Parliament for British Columbia. From 1924 to 1932 he was also publisher of the Vancouver Star. In 1936 Odlum was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - a position he held until 1941.

Odlum served for a short term during World War II as Major-General in command of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. From there he entered the diplomatic service where he served as High Commissioner to Australia from 1941 to 1942, as first Canadian Minister and Ambassador to China from 1942 to 1952. In 1952 Odlum retired from public life. In 1965 he became publisher of the short lived Vancouver Times.

See: Canadian Encyclopedia, p. 1312; Canadian Who's Who, 1967-1969.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive file list. MSS1149 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001617.pdf

Medallic: (Electronic) item level descriptions available on-line in Minisis.

Medallic: (Paper) medal inventory numbers. 8362 to 8390

Cartographic material (Paper) Please consult lower level descriptions. 79002/3735; 79002/3736; 79002/3737; 79002/4071; 79002/4085; 79002/742; 85602/654 (90: Open)

Additional information:

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General note:

Odlum's special citations and certificates of service are in horizontal storage.
Received in 1979, 1985 and 1996 from Messrs. Roger M. Odlum, Victor E.C. Odlum Nelson E. Odlum.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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106-020007-4
123-020083-5
1979-002 MED
1979-118 NPC
1984-021 PIC
1985-279 NPC
1993-430 X DAP
1995/0209
1997-288 DAP
96-073

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E300
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000001183.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 1149] 97

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items greater than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Prints and drawings: No restrictions on use or reproductions. Various copyrights. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Medallic: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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