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Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Art Cowie
- 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.Cowie was educated at the University of New Brunswick, at University College London and at the University of British Columbia.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cowie lobbied for the introduction of fee simple row housing in Vancouver and built a demonstration project.
- He died from respiratory failure at the age of 75.
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