| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary E of head of Elk River, E of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Tags: | World War I World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°29'10"N, 114°56'17"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82J/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in Place Names of Alberta, published in 1928 by the Geographic Board of Canada, in turn as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary map #8, surveyed in 1916, published in 1917. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by interprovincial boundary surveyors, "after Brigadier-General V.W. Odlum, CMG, Canadian Expeditionary Force." Source: Place Names of Alberta; published for the Geographic Board by Department of Interior, Ottawa, 1928. |
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Major-General Victor Wentworth Odlum, CB, CMG, DSO (1880 - 1953?), Vancouver newspaper editor and insurance broker. Born Cobourg, Ontario; lived in Japan as a young child, arrived in British Columbia in 1889; served in the Boer War and was commander of the British Columbia Regiment, CEF, during World War I; Vancouver MLA, 1924-28; High Commissioner to Australia, 1940; Minister to China, 1942; Minister to Turkey, 1947. Died 5 years after his return from Turkey [1953?]. (Notation in Provincial Archives that Odlum served in WW II, but details not provided) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |