Odlum Island

Odlum Island (51˚41'00" 128˚07'00" W of Adams Hbr, SW Hakai Passage, S of Bella Bella), Odlum Point (51˚42'00" 128˚07'00" NE end of Odlum I). Maj Gen Victor Wentworth Odlum, CB, CMG, DSO (1880–1971), was born at Cobourg, Ont, and spent three years in Japan, where his father worked, before arriving at Victoria in 1889. He fought in S Africa in the Boer War and served with acclaim in WWI, where he commanded the BC Regiment and helped pioneer the first Allied trench raids, an effective...

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