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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Steve Stavro, Dale Mitchell, Alex Bunbury, Colin Miller, Frank Yallop, Craig Forrest, Paul James, Carl Valentine, Randy Samuel, Bob Lenarduzzi, Domenic Mobilio, John Catliff, Ian Bridge, Mike Sweeney, Sam Chedgzoy, Gerry Gray, Dick Howard, Tony Waiters, John McGrane, Branko Segota, Graham Leggat, Tony Chursky, Joe Kennaway, Buzz Parsons, Garry Ayre, Bob Bolitho, Randy Ragan, Errol Crossan, Tino Lettieri, Paul Dolan, Bruce Wilson, Wes McLeod, Terry Moore, Robert Iarusci, Whitey McDonald, Jimmy Douglas, Neil Ellett, Glen Johnson, Sam Lenarduzzi, Gogie Stewart, George Gross, Doug McMahon, Brian Philley, Buster Cairns, Frederick Stambrook, Bob Bearpark, Dickie Stobbart, Tony Evangelista, Brian Robinson, Art Hughes, Doug Greig, Norm McLeod, Fred Whittaker, Jack Cowan, Sonia Denoncourt, Bob Harley, David Stothard, Pat Philley, Ken Pears, Don Petrie, George Anderson. Excerpt: Steve Atanas Stavro, CM (September 27, 1926 - April 24, 2006), born Manoli Stavroff Sholdas, was a Macedonian Canadian businessman, grocery store magnate, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, sports team owner, and a noted philanthropist. Born in Macedonia, 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 o...