Art Cowie (September 17,1934 –November 21,2009) was an urban planner,landscape architect and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver-Quilchena in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1991 to 1993 as a Liberal. He was born in 1934 in Halifax,Nova Scotia. [1]
Cowie was educated at the University of New Brunswick,at University College London and at the University of British Columbia. [2] He served on the Vancouver Park Board and then on Vancouver city council. Cowie resigned his seat in the provincial assembly in 1993 to allow Gordon Campbell to be elected to the assembly. [3] He was president of Sungold Entertainment Corporation and of Eikos Planning Incorporated. In 2003,he was named a director for the North Fraser Port Authority. [2] Cowie lobbied for the introduction of fee simple row housing in Vancouver and built a demonstration project. [4] He died from respiratory failure at the age of 75. [3]
British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains,the province has a diverse geography,with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines,sandy beaches,forests,lakes,mountains,inland deserts and grassy plains. British Columbia borders the province of Alberta to the east;the territories of Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north;the U.S. states of Washington,Idaho and Montana to the south,and Alaska to the northwest. With an estimated population of over 5.6 million as of 2024,it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria,while the province's largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver and its suburbs together make up the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada,with the 2021 census recording 2.6 million people in Metro Vancouver. British Columbia is Canada's third-largest province in terms of total area,after Quebec and Ontario.
The Lower Mainland is a geographic and cultural region of the mainland coast of British Columbia that generally comprises the regional districts of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. Home to approximately 3.05 million people as of the 2021 Canadian census,the Lower Mainland contains sixteen of the province's 30 most populous municipalities and approximately 60% of the province's total population.
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia,Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver,respectively located in Burnaby,Surrey,and Vancouver. The 170-hectare (420-acre) main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain,located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from downtown Vancouver,was established in 1965 and comprises more than 30,000 students and 160,000 alumni. The university was created in an effort to expand higher education across Canada.
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada,located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province,the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city,up from 631,486 in 2016. The Metro Vancouver area had a population of 2.6 million in 2021,making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver,along with the Fraser Valley,comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada,with over 5,700 inhabitants per square kilometre (15,000/sq mi),and the fourth highest in North America.
Surrey (/ˈsɝɹi/) is a city in British Columbia,Canada. It is located south of the Fraser River on the Canada–United States border. It is a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver regional district and metropolitan area. Mainly a suburban city,Surrey is the province's second-largest by population after Vancouver and the third-largest by area after Abbotsford and Prince George. Seven neighbourhoods in Surrey are designated town centres:Cloverdale,Fleetwood,Guildford,Newton,South Surrey,and City Centre encompassed by Whalley.
The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia,Canada,rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 kilometres (854 mi),into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver. The river's annual discharge at its mouth is 112 cubic kilometres (27 cu mi) or 3,550 cubic metres per second (125,000 cu ft/s),and each year it discharges about 20 million tons of sediment into the ocean.
The Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD),or simply Metro Vancouver,is a Canadian political subdivision and corporate entity representing the metropolitan area of Greater Vancouver,designated by provincial legislation as one of the 28 regional districts in British Columbia. The organization was known as the Regional District of Fraser–Burrard for nearly one year upon incorporating in 1967,and as the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) from 1968 to 2017.
Colin Hansen is a former politician in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He served as member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1996 to 2013,representing the electoral district of Vancouver-Quilchena. As a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus,he served in a variety of cabinet posts while that party was in power,including as the 11th Deputy Premier from June 2009 to March 2011,and twice as the province's Minister of Finance.
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The Colony of Vancouver Island,officially known as the Island of Vancouver and its Dependencies,was a Crown colony of British North America from 1849 to 1866,after which it was united with the mainland to form the Colony of British Columbia. The united colony joined Canadian Confederation,thus becoming part of Canada,in 1871. The colony comprised Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands of the Strait of Georgia.
The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866 that was founded by Richard Clement Moody,who was selected to 'found a second England on the shores of the Pacific',who was Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. Prior to the arrival of Moody's Royal Engineers,Columbia Detachment,the Colony's supreme authority was its Governor James Douglas,who was the Governor of the neighbouring colony of Vancouver Island.
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