Stephen b roman biography
Stephen Boleslav Roman was a..
Stephen Boleslav Roman (17 April – 23 March ) was a prominent Canadian mining engineer and mining executive of a Slovak origin.
Stephen Boleslav Roman
Stephen Boleslav Roman (17 April 1921 – 23 March 1988) was a prominent Canadianmining engineer and mining executive of a Slovak origin.[1] Business commentator Diane Francis described him as a self-made man in her book Controlling Interest.[2] 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."[3]Peter Newman profiled him in "Sometimes a great nation: will Canada belong to the 21st century?"[4]
Štefan Boleslav Roman was born in village Veľký Ruskov (now Nový Ruskov) in Slovakia.
He emigrated to Canada when he was 16 years old. Since his youth he was strong 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 f