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Odlum was a zealous reader, and in 1963, he donated his collection of 10,000 books to the library at the University of British Columbia.
His son, Major Victor E.C. Odlum studied at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1923, student # 1713, and served in the Royal Canadian Engineers during the Second World War.
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