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Major General Victor Odlum was prominent and very active in the business and political elite of Vancouver, British Columbia up until his death in the 1960s. He was a newspaper publisher, a Liberal MLA, co-founder of the Non-Partisan Association, temperance advocate, original director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Canada's first Ambassador to China. He fought in the Boer War and the First and Second World Wars. He gained national prominence in WWI for pioneering an effective guerrilla technique of trench raids that the Germans later copied.
