Odlum, Edward Faraday

ODLUM, Edward Faraday, scientist, businessman (b 27 Nov 1850, Tullamore, ON; d 4 May 1935, Vancouver). As a young man he defended Ontario against Fenian invaders. He arrived in VANCOUVER in 1889 from Tokyo, where he had been running a college. A person of wide interests, he travelled extensively, indulging an enthusiasm for ethnography and evolutionary theory and lecturing on the benefits of immigration to Canada. When he was in Vancouver between trips he engaged in real estate and other...

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