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Archive Home > 2008 > September > 04 > Thomas Bata was the "shoemaker to the world"

Thomas Bata was the "shoemaker to the world"

By Ian Austen / The Bulletin
September 4, 2008

OTTAWA — Thomas Bata, who moved his family business to Canada ahead of the German invasion of Czechoslovakia and later became, as he put it, “shoemaker to the world,” died in Toronto on Monday. He was 93.

Bata died in a hospital, Leslie Tenenbaum, the general....

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