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Steve Atanas Stavro, CM (September 27, 1926 – April 24, 2006), born Manoli Stavroff Sholdas, was a Macedonian-Canadian businessman,〔http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1901288〕〔http://www.makemigration.com/aktivnosti/biznismeni/stavros.htm〕〔http://www.macedonianlife.com/article.aspx?artid=00380043-0037-0045-3900-450044003900〕〔http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=2152994&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1#SOB-1509494〕 grocery store magnate, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, sports team owner, and a noted philanthropist. ==Personal life and Knob Hill Farms== Born in the Gabresh, near Kastoria in Greece,〔http://macedoniantoronto.blogspot.ca/2009/12/test.html〕 Stavro immigrated to Toronto with his family when he was seven years old to join his father, who had come to Canada in 1927. He attended Duke of Connaught Public School, where he was given the name Steve, and Riverdale Collegiate Institute. He worked in his father's grocery store, Louis Meat Market, at Queen Street and Coxwell Avenue and left school after Grade 10 to work full-time. In 1951, he and his family opened a new store across the street under the Knob Hill Farms name. Stavro said he took the name off a box of produce from California, although Knob Hill was also the name of a community in Scarborough, Ontario. By 1954, he was running his own grocery store at 425 Danforth Avenue while his older brother, Chris Stavro, managed the original store. By the late 1950s, Stavro was operating nine grocery stores and outdoor markets in Toronto. His father was diagnosed with cancer in 1956 and died in 1960. In December 1963, Stavro opened his first food "terminal"—a forerunner of the big-box store—which featured low prices and no-frills service. It was located at Woodbine Road and Highway 7 in Markham, Ontario. Eight years later, he opened a second terminal in Pickering, Ontario. A 10,000 square-metre store at Landsowne Avenue and Dundas Street West in Toronto opened in 1975. Through the years, he opened nine terminals in the Greater Toronto Area and a 31,500 square-metre outlet in Cambridge, Ontario, which opened in 1991, billed as the world's largest grocery store. In 1992, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. At the time, he was said to own a manor house on in Campbellcroft, Ontario, a 49-room mansion on Teddington Park in Toronto, a palatial mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, at Holland Marsh, and a farm in Kentucky. All Knob Hill Farms stores were shut down in 2000. In 2006, Stavro died in his home at age 78 after a heart attack. He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery where he had built a tomb adorned with icons of many of his achievements including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Order of Canada, Knights of Malta, Order of the Masons and an equestrian statue of Alexander the Great. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Stavro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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