Bowness
Bowness is the oldest neighbourhood and former town in west Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The former town was amalgamated into the City of Calgary in 1964.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 10,800 residents
- Description: neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Also known as: “Bowness, Calgary”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bowmont Park and Bowness High School.
Bowmont Park
Park
Bowmont Park or Bowmont Natural Environment Park is a 192 hectares urban park on the northern bank of the Bow River in the northwest of the city of Calgary in the communities of Bowness and Montgomery.
Bowness High School
School
Bowness High School is a public school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which teaches grades 10 through 12. It is operated by the Calgary Board of Education.
Dale Hodges Park
Park
Photo: Oceanflynn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dale Hodges Park is a 40.5 hectares natural environment urban park, stormwater treatment, and public artwork installation in northwest Calgary, Alberta.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenwood/Greenbriar and Silver Springs.
Greenwood/Greenbriar
Suburb
Greenwood/Greenbriar is a residential neighbourhood in the northwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is bounded by the Trans-Canada Highway to the south, the Bow River to the north, Stoney Trail to the west and the community of Bowness to the east. Canada Olympic Park borders the neighbourhood to the south.
Silver Springs
Suburb
Silver Springs is a residential neighbourhood in the northwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is bounded to the north by Crowchild Trail, to the east by Sarcee Trail, to the south by the Bow River and to the west by Nose Hill Drive.
Cougar Ridge
Suburb
Cougar Ridge is a residential neighbourhood in the southwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is located at the western edge of the city and is bounded by Paskapoo Slopes and Canada Olympic Park to the north, 69 Street W to the east, 101 Street W to the west and Old Banff Coach Road to the south.
Bowness
- Categories: neighborhood, former town, and locality
- Location: Calgary, Calgary Region, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.08928° or 51° 5′ 21″ northLongitude
-114.19308° or 114° 11′ 35″ westPopulation
10,800Elevation
1,066 metres (3,497 feet)Open location code
95373RQ4+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 51970215OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
5906836Wikidata ID
Q3851278
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bowness” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bowness”
- Dutch: “Bowness”
- Esperanto: “Bowness”
- Interlingua: “Bowness”
- Lombard: “Bowness”
- Swedish: “Bowness, Alberta”
- Swedish: “Bowness”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bowness”. Photo: Qyd, CC BY 2.5.