Stephen Boleslav Roman (17 April 1921 – 23 March 1988) was a prominent

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and mining executive of a Slovak origin. Business commentator

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described him as a

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in her book ''Controlling Interest''. A 1967 profile in ''

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'' 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?" Cathedral of the Transfiguration-Markham-Ontario-20210615

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Štefan Boleslav Roman was born in village Veľký Ruskov (now Nový Ruskov) in

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. He emigrated to Canada when he was 16 years old. Since his youth he was strong connected to the

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. He helped to found and organize the

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. 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.František Dancák: ROMAN, Štefan Boleslav
- zoe.sk (Slovak) Roman was invested in the

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and the

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. The

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appointed him a Papal knight. The

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'' Stephen B. Roman'' was named after him.

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