About Edward Faraday Odlum
Lived 1850 – 1935 (aged 84). Edward Faraday Odlum was a Canadian anthropologist, archaeologist and geologist.
Edward Faraday Odlum (November 27, 1850 – May 4, 1935) was a Canadian geologist, educator and businessman. He studied the ethnography of the people of Australia and Northern Europe, and investigated the Stone of Scone. He was a believer in British Israelism.
He returned to Canada in 1889 and lived in Vancouver. Odlum may have installed the first public telephone in Vancouver and the first electric arc light. He was elected as an alderman twice, first in 1892. He visited the United Kingdom from 1903 to 1904 to promote migration to Canada. He ran for a seat in the British Columbia legislature but was defeated.
Legacy Odlum was the father of soldier and diplomat Victor Wentworth Odlum. A street in Grandview, Odlum Drive, is named after Edward Odlum.
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Who was Edward Faraday Odlum?
Canadian geologist
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Edward Faraday Odlum was born on 27 November 1850.
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Edward Faraday Odlum died on 4 May 1935.
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Edward Faraday Odlum was an anthropologist, archaeologist and geologist.
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Edward Faraday Odlum was Canadian.
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