Cowie Hill is a community within the urban area of the Municipality of Halifax , in Nova Scotia , Canada .
6-486: The hill on which it is situated was originally called Cowie's Hill , named after one of the original owners of the land, Robert Cowie . In 1752, Cowie, a British merchant, was granted the land by Governor Edward Cornwallis . Over time, the apostrophe s in Cowie's Hill was dropped. In the 1970s, the community began to urbanize. Two apartment buildings have been built since then; Armdale Place (known colloquially as Top of
12-675: A prolongation of life beyond the average among the Shetlanders, which excited considerable notice. The interest in Cowie's thesis papers led him to prepare them for publication with much material added in the following volume. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Blaikie, William Garden (1887). "Cowie, Robert" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. This United Kingdom biographical article related to medicine
18-538: Is a large park called the J. Albert Walker Memorial Sports Field . The only demographic information that pertains to Cowie Hill is that there are approximately 26,500 people that live within District 9 (Halifax West Armdale) . However, there is not specific demographic information for the community of Cowie Hill. Currently, there are two transit routes that traverse through the community. Halifax Transit Routes Robert Cowie Robert Cowie (1842–1874)
24-664: The Mountain ), and Ridgeway Towers. Cowie Hill is a relatively small community with about 132 ha (330 acres) of landmass. The community overlooks the Northwest Arm , and is approximately 6.1 km (3.8 mi) from Downtown Halifax. Throughout the community, there are distinctive townhouses that line narrow, one-way streets. Its main streets include Cowie Hill Road, Highfield Street, and Ridgevalley Road. Side streets include Abbey Road, Bromley Road, Cavendish Road, Drumdonald Road, Limerick Road, and Shepherd Road. There
30-476: Was a British physician and author. He was born in 1842 at Lerwick , the capital of the Shetland Islands, where both his father and uncle were well-known medical practitioners. He was educated partly at Aberdeen , where he took the degree of M.A., and at Edinburgh, where he was a student of the anesthesia pioneer James Young Simpson . On the death of his father he took up his medical practice, and
36-610: Was held in high esteem, both for his professional and general character. He died suddenly of peritonitis in 1874, in his thirty-third year. Cowie was an enthusiastic lover of his native islands, one proof of which was his selection of certain physical peculiarities of the Shetland people as the subject of his thesis when applying for the degree of M.D. At a later period he contributed to the International Congress at Paris an article on health and longevity, bringing out
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