Oliver Bowen (December 21, 1942 – January 1, 2000) was a Canadian engineer who managed the design and construction of the first line of Calgary's light rail transit system: the CTrain.
[1] The City of Calgary acknowledged his engineering work by naming a light rail transit (LRT) maintenance facility in his honour.
[2] Following Clifford Sifton's 1910 Canadian immigration campaign to lure settlers from Southern US states as part of the Great Migration (African American), many black settlers came to Alberta.
[5] In 1984 he was named the City of Calgary's Director of Transportation, a position he held until his retirement in 1998.
In 2009, the City of Calgary named its largest maintenance facility after Bowen to honour his work.