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Stephen Boleslav Roman
Canadian businessman (1921–1988)
Stephen Boleslav Roman (17 April 1921 – 23 March 1988) was a prominent Canadian mining engineer and mining executive of a Slovak origin.2
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Born Apr 17, 1921, died Mar 23, 1988.1
About
Business commentator Diane Francis described him as a self-made man in her book Controlling Interest.
A 1967 profile in Fortune magazine said "Toronto teems with speculators who have made it big promoting oil, mines, and penny stocks, but no one has made it bigger than Stephen Boleslav Roman."
Peter Newman profiled him in "Sometimes a great nation: will Canada belong to the 21st century?"
From Wikipedia’s article on Stephen Boleslav Roman, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- Denison MinesFounder11
Early life and education
Štefan Boleslav Roman was born in the village of Veľký Ruskov (now Nový Ruskov) in Slovakia, then part of the Czechoslovak Republic. He emigrated to Canada when he was 16 years old, shortly before Nazi Germany annexed his native Czechoslovakia.
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Career
Occupation: mining engineer, entrepreneur, engineer.4
- Date not recordedFounded Denison Mines3
Personal life
Since his youth, he was strongly connected to the Greek Catholic Church. He helped to found and organize the Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto. The monumental Cathedral of the Transfiguration of our Lord in Markham was funded and designed by him, modeling the structure on the church in Veľký Ruskov.
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