Compiled from public sources
Business Directory
The businesses Macedonians have built in Canada — the ones open today, the ones that came first, and the institutions that grew up around them.
134 Entries
70 Open listings
25 Heritage businesses
30 Organisations & media
31 Cities
How this directory was compiled
This directory has been compiled by volunteers of the Canadian Macedonian Heritage Society from public sources — the community's newspapers and newsletters, sponsor rolls, news coverage, and the businesses' own websites. Each entry notes how its Macedonian connection is documented. Inclusion is not an endorsement, and we cannot guarantee every detail is current. If something is wrong, out of date — or if you would rather your business did not appear here at all — write to us and we will fix or remove it promptly.
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The directory
Businesses trading today, grouped by trade. Each card records how the Macedonian connection is documented and links the sources behind it.
Food & hospitality
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California Restaurant & Bar Ресторан „Калифорнија“
Opened in 1968 under an American name chosen for its Pape Village neighbours, California is the restaurant Toronto's food press points to when asked where the c...
Address: 914 Pape Avenue, Toronto, ON M4K 3V2
Telephone: (416) 461-1251
Website: https://californiarestobar.ca
Macedonian connection: Founded in 1968 by Milan Jurtovski, who emigrated from the Mariovo region of Macedonia; owned since 2006 by Dragan Damceski of Bitola and his wife Zanette, who married in Bitola before settling in Toronto.
Sources: https://torontolife.com/food/sort-of-secret-california-restaurant-and-bar-a-pape-village-kitchen-with-an-american-name-but-an-eastern-european-menu/
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Coffee Time — Old Kingston Road
A Highland Creek coffee-and-doughnut shop that spent years as an advertiser in, and a pick-up point for, the community's Macedonia newspaper — the quiet signatu...
Address: 371 Old Kingston Road, Scarborough, ON M1C 1B7
Macedonian connection: This franchise location advertised for years in the Macedonia newspaper and distributed it to the community — the mark of a Macedonian franchisee.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202017.pdf
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Crossroads Macedonian & Greek Restaurant & Bar
A neighbourhood restaurant and bar on the Scarborough stretch of the Danforth that does something few Toronto businesses have ever done: it puts the word Macedo...
Address: 3476 Danforth Avenue, Scarborough, ON M1L 1E1
Macedonian connection: Names its Macedonian identity in the business name itself — a rare thing on the Danforth, where Macedonian-run kitchens historically traded under Greek or Canadian names.
Sources: https://www.facebook.com/p/Crossroads-Macedonian-Greek-restaurant-bar-100077528048728/
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Dave's Hot Chicken (Canada)
Community-affiliated
The Canadian expansion of Dave's Hot Chicken runs through Obelysk, the Toronto investment house of John Bitove Jr. — the man who brought the NBA to Canada and w...
Website: https://obelysk.com
Macedonian connection: The Canadian rollout of the Nashville-hot-chicken brand sits in the portfolio of Obelysk, John Bitove Jr.'s Toronto investment firm.
Sources: https://obelysk.com
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Elite Dairy Ltd.
Community-affiliated
A GTA dairy producer that has become one of the Macedonian community's most generous corporate friends: title sponsor of the 81st Macedonian Open golf tournamen...
Website: https://elitedairy.ca
Macedonian connection: Title sponsor of the 81st Macedonian Open (2025) and a Metamorphosis-level donor to Canadian Macedonian Place's ReImagine Gala — the community's leading dairy benefactor.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Fancy Kafana
A catering outfit whose name says everything about its table: kafana, the old Balkan tavern where the food is abundant and the music ends late. The Macedonia ne...
Macedonian connection: Catered community charity events recorded in the Macedonia newspaper; 'kafana' is the Balkan tavern in the old style.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202017.pdf
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Macedonia Secrets Македонски тајни
A mother-and-son bakery in Newmarket that CBC's food columnist Suresh Doss singled out as the place to taste Macedonian home baking in the Toronto region. Maggi...
Macedonian connection: Family-run by Nicholas Georgievski, born in Richmond Hill to Maggie and Louie Georgievski, who emigrated from Strumica more than thirty years ago.
Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/macedonian-secrets-suresh-doss-1.6145010
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Macedonian Mermaid Motel Мотел „Македонска сирена“
Very likely the only motel in Canada with 'Macedonian' on the sign. Canadian Macedonian Place's newsletter records that Kosta Stanwyck, the cheese-maker and cat...
Macedonian connection: Purchased in 2019 by Kosta Stanwyck, co-founder of Triple "A" Cheese and a builder of St Clement of Ohrid Cathedral — at the age of 89.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/13225-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage-r1-FL-cropped.pdf
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Meca Grill
A Scarborough grill remembered in Canadian Macedonian Place's newsletter, where its staff made memorial donations together as 'the gang at Meca Grill'. That sma...
Macedonian connection: Its crew appears in Canadian Macedonian Place's newsletter making memorial donations as 'the gang at Meca Grill' — the signature of a community kitchen.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter_2022.pdf
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PowerBev Inc.
The beverage venture of Tom Bitove, a third-generation member of the family that built Toronto's great Macedonian catering empire. PowerBev has sponsored lunche...
Macedonian connection: Tom Bitove's beverage company — third generation of the Bitove family, grandsons of immigrants from Gabresh, Aegean Macedonia; a recurring Macedonian Open sponsor.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/13886-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage-FINAL.pdf
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Summer Fresh Salads Inc.
In 1991 Susan Niczowski, a University of Toronto-trained chemist then working as a microbiologist at Shopsy's, began making hummus from Macedonian family recipe...
Address: 334 Rowntree Dairy Road, Woodbridge, ON L4L 8H2
Telephone: 905-856-8816 / 1-877-472-5237
Website: https://summerfresh.com
Macedonian connection: Founded by Susan Niczowski, born in North York to Macedonian parents of the Detsa Begalci generation; Macedonia 2025 board member, honoured by Canadian Macedonian Place at its 2024 ReImagine Gala.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Niczowski
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Tim Hortons — Branoff Family franchises
Community-affiliated
Every Macedonian Open for years has begun the same way: coffee and breakfast under the Branoff family's Tim Hortons banner. Franchise coffee is the modern chapt...
Macedonian connection: The Branoff family's Tim Hortons operation is the registration-and-breakfast sponsor of the Macedonian Open year after year.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Triple "A" Cheese
One of the GTA's principal feta makers, founded in 1996 by Kosta Stanwyck and his sons Chris and Tom. Kosta belonged to the generation that built St Clement of...
Address: 7210 Torbram Road, Mississauga, ON L4T 3L7 (retail outlet at 7190 Torbram Road)
Telephone: 905-678-7053
Website: https://www.tripleacheese.com
Macedonian connection: Founded in 1996 by Kosta Stanwyck — a founding builder of St Clement of Ohrid Cathedral — with his sons Chris and Tom; the Stanwyck family are mainstay sponsors of Canadian Macedonian Place.
Sources: https://www.tripleacheese.com/
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Tumbecafe Bar & Pub Тумбе кафе
A Scarborough bar that wears its heritage in its name: Tumbe kafe is the Bitola song every Macedonian wedding band knows, and the pub advertised for years in th...
Address: 1375 Danforth Road, Scarborough, ON
Macedonian connection: Named for 'Tumbe kafe', the beloved Bitola folk song — a name only a Macedonian would choose — and a long-time advertiser in the community's Macedonia newspaper.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202017.pdf
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Wimpy's Diner
Community-affiliated
Canada's largest 1950s-styled diner chain traces itself to a 1961 drive-in and a first full-service diner opened in 1988, growing to dozens of franchised locati...
Website: https://wimpysdiner.ca
Macedonian connection: A fixture on Canadian Macedonian Place's sponsor rolls year after year — hole-in-one sponsor of the Macedonian Open across the 2010s and 2020s — reflecting deep ties to the Macedonian restaurant community.
Sources: https://wimpysdiner.ca/?page_id=698
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Health & wellness
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Dr. Vera Najdova, Family Medicine
For years the Macedonia newspaper carried the same steady notice: Dr. Vera Najdova, family medicine, Eglinton Avenue East. For a generation of east-end Macedoni...
Address: 2390 Eglinton Avenue East, Scarborough, ON M1K 2P5
Telephone: 416-750-0200
Macedonian connection: A Macedonian family physician whose practice advertised in the Macedonia newspaper for years, serving patients in their own language.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202017.pdf
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Kozovski Family Dentistry
Dr. Blagoje 'Bob' Kozovski's family practice has looked after teeth in Markham and Scarborough for, in its own words, over two generations. The clinics cover th...
Address: 190 Main Street North, Markham, ON; 1049 McNicoll Avenue, Scarborough, ON M1W 3W6
Telephone: 905-471-9100 (Markham); 416-750-8080 (Scarborough)
Website: https://kozovskifamilydentistry.com
Macedonian connection: A Macedonian family practice across two generations; sponsor of St Ilija church events, recorded in the Macedonia newspaper.
Sources: https://kozovskifamilydentistry.com/about-us/
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Paragon Dental Laboratory Inc.
The dental laboratory of Boris Sekulovski, a name that recurs among the donors and tournament sponsors of Canadian Macedonian Place. Paragon is part of the quie...
Macedonian connection: Boris Sekulovski's dental laboratory appears among Canadian Macedonian Place's donors and Macedonian Open sponsors.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/13886-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage-FINAL.pdf
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ScarboroSmiles Dental
A father-and-daughter dental practice at Scarborough Town Centre with more than forty years behind it. Dr. Kocho Cumandra and his daughter Dr. Isabel Cumandra r...
Address: 300 Borough Drive, Unit 53A (Scarborough Town Centre), Scarborough, ON M1P 4P5
Telephone: (416) 519-6825
Website: https://www.scarborosmiles.ca
Macedonian connection: Father-and-daughter practice of Drs. Kocho and Isabel Cumandra; multi-year sponsors of Canadian Macedonian Place's Macedonian Open, and PPE donors to the seniors' home through the pandemic.
Sources: https://www.scarborosmiles.ca/
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Smilecorp — Victor Minas, Denturist
Victor Minas's denture clinics in Toronto and Whitby — consultation, fabrication, repairs and same-day service — introduced themselves to the community through...
Telephone: 416-322-3330 (Toronto); 905-721-2797 (Whitby)
Website: https://smilecorp.com
Macedonian connection: Advertised denture services to the community in the Macedonia newspaper.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/February%202020.pdf
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Village Health Clinic & Art-Kitect Art School
Community-affiliated
A paired clinic and art school that stood among the Unity-level sponsors of Canadian Macedonian Place's 2024 ReImagine Gala — a five-figure commitment to the co...
Macedonian connection: A Unity-level ($10,000) sponsor of Canadian Macedonian Place's ReImagine Gala.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Legal
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Chris G. Paliare — Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
Community-affiliated
Chris Paliare founded one of Canada's most respected litigation boutiques, and for more than twenty years he has given the community's flagship institution his...
Address: 155 Wellington Street West, 35th Floor, Toronto, ON M5V 3H1
Telephone: 416-646-4300
Website: https://www.paliareroland.com
Macedonian connection: Founding partner Chris Paliare serves as vice-president of Canadian Macedonian Place's board; his family foundation is a standing donor, and the firm sponsors the community's galas.
Sources: https://www.paliareroland.com/
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Dimitrievski Law
Emilija Dimitrievski's firm covers the law most families actually need — family law, wills and powers of attorney, estate planning and real-estate transactions....
Website: https://dimitrievskilaw.ca
Macedonian connection: Emilija Dimitrievski's practice was profiled in the Macedonia newspaper in 2026 — a Macedonian lawyer serving the community in family law, estates and real estate.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/April,%202026.pdf
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Paul Stoyan — Gardiner Roberts LLP
Community-affiliated
Paul Stoyan's name carries Gardiner Roberts LLP onto the sponsor rolls of Canadian Macedonian Place's galas, and the community's own reference pages list him am...
Website: https://www.gardiner-roberts.com
Macedonian connection: Paul Stoyan, of Macedonian descent, practises at Gardiner Roberts LLP; the firm appears under his name among Canadian Macedonian Place's Unity-level gala sponsors.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Peter Simeon — Gowling WLG
Community-affiliated
Peter Simeon leads a double life the community knows well: partner at the international law firm Gowling WLG by day, president of Canadian Macedonian Place the...
Website: https://gowlingwlg.com
Macedonian connection: Peter Simeon, president of Canadian Macedonian Place, is a partner at Gowling WLG, which sponsors the Macedonian Open at gold level under his name.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Finance, accounting & insurance
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Garry Paspalofski — CIBC Private Wealth, Wood Gundy
Community-affiliated
Garry Paspalofski's wealth-management practice at CIBC Private Wealth – Wood Gundy stands among the Macedonian Open's silver sponsors, one of the cluster of sec...
Macedonian connection: A Macedonian-Canadian wealth adviser whose CIBC Wood Gundy practice sponsors the Macedonian Open at silver level.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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ICD Insurance — Robert Zolumoff
Robert Zolumoff's insurance practice appears among the Macedonian Open's silver sponsors, carrying one of the community's oldest documented surnames — a Zolumof...
Macedonian connection: Robert Zolumoff — a surname documented in the community since the 1920s — sponsors the Macedonian Open through his insurance practice.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Michael Georgiev — Jones DesLauriers Insurance
Community-affiliated
Commercial insurance broker Michael Georgiev has kept Jones DesLauriers on the Macedonian Open's silver sponsor list across multiple seasons, and his own name a...
Macedonian connection: Michael Georgiev brings Jones DesLauriers onto the Macedonian Open sponsor rolls and appears personally among CMP's golf donors.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Michael R. Stoyan — Fuller Landau LLP
Community-affiliated
Michael Stoyan keeps the books that matter most to the community: he is the volunteer treasurer of Canadian Macedonian Place, and his firm, the Toronto accounti...
Website: https://www.fullerllp.com
Macedonian connection: Michael Stoyan serves as treasurer of Canadian Macedonian Place; Fuller Landau appears under his name among the ReImagine Gala's Unity sponsors.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Robert D. Petroff Professional Corporation, CPA
Robert Petroff's accounting practice appears on the Macedonian Open sponsor rolls season after season, and Petroff himself serves on the tournament committee —...
Macedonian connection: A Macedonian-Canadian accountant whose professional corporation has sponsored the Macedonian Open for years; Petroff also serves on the tournament committee.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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The Trentos Advisory Group — RBC Wealth Management
Community-affiliated
Marilyn Trentos's advisory group at RBC Wealth Management appears wherever the community's money is raised for good: gold sponsor of the Macedonian Open under h...
Macedonian connection: Marilyn Trentos — CMP director, gala co-chair and family foundation donor — leads her advisory group at RBC Wealth Management, a perennial gold sponsor under her name.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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The ZAF Group
Community-affiliated
The ZAF Group is the family vehicle of Mike Zafirovski — born in Skopje in 1953, formerly of General Electric and Motorola, chief executive of Toronto's Nortel...
Macedonian connection: The family vehicle of Mike Zafirovski, the Skopje-born executive who led Nortel Networks in Toronto (2005–2009); a five-figure donor to Canadian Macedonian Place.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Real estate & mortgages
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Arch Corporation
Arch Corporation, the Toronto firm of Dan and Sue Argiros, appears at the top tiers of Canadian Macedonian Place's sponsor rolls year after year — Unity level a...
Macedonian connection: Dan and Sue Argiros's firm is a perennial gold- and Unity-level sponsor of Canadian Macedonian Place; the Argiro name has backed the community since Helen and Angelo Argiro financed the reprint of 'Men in White Aprons'.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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John Nushis — Union Capital Realty
Broker John Nushis of Union Capital Realty joined the Macedonian Open's bronze sponsors in 2025 — one more name in the long column of community realtors who tur...
Macedonian connection: A Macedonian-Canadian broker on the Macedonian Open's bronze sponsor roll.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Maja Dimitrievski — Real Estate Agent
Maja Dimitrievski helps GTA families buy and sell homes from Golden House Realty's North York brokerage, and she says so where her community reads it: in the pa...
Telephone: 416-347-7689
Website: https://www.goldenhouserealty.com
Macedonian connection: A Macedonian-Canadian realtor advertising to the community in the Macedonia newspaper.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/December,%202024.pdf
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The Lillian Marson Team
Community-affiliated
A GTA real-estate team recorded among the Unity-level sponsors of Canadian Macedonian Place's ReImagine Gala. The society lists the team from the gala's honour...
Macedonian connection: Unity-level sponsor of Canadian Macedonian Place's ReImagine Gala.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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The Penzo Team & Urban Blueprint Development
Community-affiliated
Debbi Penzo's real-estate team, paired in the community's records with Urban Blueprint Development, has backed Canadian Macedonian Place from the gala floor to...
Macedonian connection: Gala and tournament sponsor of Canadian Macedonian Place across several years, at gold level in 2022.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/13225-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage-r1-FL-cropped.pdf
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Tom & Alexandra Bozanis — Royal LePage Connect Realty
The Bozanis family's Royal LePage Connect team — Tom, Alexandra and John across the tournament rolls of different years — has been a fixture among the Macedonia...
Macedonian connection: The Bozanis family team sponsors the Macedonian Open at silver level year after year.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Vasko Nedanovski — Royal LePage Meadowtowne Realty
Vasko Nedanovski's Royal LePage Meadowtowne practice serves the west GTA, and his advertisements ran in the Macedonia newspaper across multiple years — a realto...
Telephone: 647-333-9628
Macedonian connection: A Macedonian-Canadian realtor who advertised in the Macedonia newspaper across multiple years.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202017.pdf
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Vic Dejanovic — RE/MAX Rouge River Realty
Vic Dejanovic's award-winning RE/MAX practice covers Durham Region, Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough and Northumberland — the countryside east of Toronto where many...
Address: 2377 Highway 2, Unit 220, Bowmanville, ON L1C 5A4
Telephone: 416-835-3341
Website: https://www.sellwithvic.com
Macedonian connection: Serves Durham and the Kawarthas in seven languages including Macedonian, and advertises to the community in the Macedonia newspaper.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/October,%202025.pdf
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Construction & trades
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FNC Structural Contracting Inc.
Community-affiliated
A GTA structural contractor recorded among the Macedonian Open's bronze sponsors. The society lists the firm from Canadian Macedonian Place's tournament rolls a...
Macedonian connection: A bronze sponsor of the Macedonian Open recorded in CMP's newsletters.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/13225-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage-r1-FL-cropped.pdf
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IKS Trans Inc.
Igor Kasnioski's dump-truck operation hauls aggregate out of yards on Trafalgar Road north of the 401 and in Cambridge, and when the fleet needs experienced DZ...
Telephone: 905-783-2574
Macedonian connection: Igor Kasnioski's dump-truck fleet recruits its drivers through the Macedonia newspaper.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/December,%202024.pdf
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Mainline Fire Protection
Mainline Fire Protection designs, installs, inspects and services fire alarms, sprinklers and suppression systems for more than 800 properties across the GTA, p...
Address: 411 Bradwick Drive, Unit 12, Concord, ON L4K 2P4
Telephone: 416-305-0704
Website: https://www.mainlinefire.com
Macedonian connection: Co-principal Nick Janevski brings the firm onto the Macedonian Open's gold sponsor roll.
Sources: https://www.mainlinefire.com/
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Precision Renovations Ltd.
Perry Milich's renovation firm has held a gold sponsorship at the Macedonian Open across the better part of a decade — the kind of standing commitment that in t...
Macedonian connection: Perry Milich's firm is a gold-level sponsor of the Macedonian Open across many seasons.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Signtronix Signs
Nikola Germanski's sign shop has put its own name on the Macedonian Open sponsor boards at gold and bronze tiers across different seasons — a signmaker, fitting...
Macedonian connection: Nikola Germanski's sign shop sponsors the Macedonian Open.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Underwriters Security Controls Inc.
The Oushalkas family's security-systems firm stands among the Macedonian Open's silver sponsors — an Aegean-Macedonian surname on a company that locks up half t...
Macedonian connection: The Oushalkas family's security firm sponsors the Macedonian Open at silver level.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Manufacturing
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Canadian Feed Screws
Chris Vasilev's shop machines and rebuilds the feed screws that keep plastics and extrusion lines running — specialist industrial work of the kind that rarely m...
Macedonian connection: Chris Vasilev's machining firm is a gold- and silver-tier Macedonian Open sponsor.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/13225-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage-r1-FL-cropped.pdf
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Continental Carbon Group
Community-affiliated
An industrial group that has backed Canadian Macedonian Place at Unity level and across many tournament seasons under the names of Steven and Michael Massis and...
Macedonian connection: A Unity-level gala and multi-year tournament sponsor of Canadian Macedonian Place under the Massis and Nitsopoulos names.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Twin Equipment & Tesco Division
Community-affiliated
An equipment firm that appears on the Macedonian Open's silver sponsor rolls under Mike Mintsopoulos's name — one of the Aegean-Macedonian and Greek-Macedonian...
Macedonian connection: Mike Mintsopoulos keeps the firm on the Macedonian Open's silver sponsor roll.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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VAC Developments Ltd.
Since 1979 VAC Developments has machined and formed built-to-print sheet-metal and precision components for the aerospace and defence industry from its Oakville...
Address: 2270 Bristol Circle, Oakville, ON L6H 5S3
Telephone: (905) 855-6855
Website: https://www.vacdev.com
Macedonian connection: The Hristovski family's plant has advertised in the Macedonia newspaper for years — including standing offers of work and training for newcomers from Macedonia.
Sources: https://www.vacdev.com/
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Automotive
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Alexander The Great Auto Inc.
A Milton used-vehicle dealer that advertises in the Macedonia newspaper under a name every Macedonian recognises at a hundred paces. Financing and sales six day...
Address: 2695 Durante Way, Milton, ON L9T 5J1
Telephone: 833-216-1270
Macedonian connection: A Milton dealership advertising in the Macedonia newspaper under the most Macedonian of business names.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/February,%202025.pdf
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Formula Honda — Macedonian sales team
Community-affiliated
When Formula Honda advertised in the Macedonia newspaper, it did so with three names and three extensions: Jim Vasilevski, sales manager; Tony Stojanovski; Bill...
Telephone: 416-754-4555
Website: https://www.formulahonda.com
Macedonian connection: The dealership advertised in the Macedonia newspaper through its trio of Macedonian-speaking sales consultants.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202018.pdf
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Lucas Automotive Services
A Highland Creek repair shop on Kingston Road whose advertisements ran in the Macedonia newspaper alongside the community's doctors and realtors — a garage the...
Address: 6456 Kingston Road, Scarborough, ON M1C 1L4
Website: https://lucasautomotive.ca
Macedonian connection: A Kingston Road garage that advertised in the Macedonia newspaper for years.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202018.pdf
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The Mechanics Shop
A Scarborough garage on Winter Avenue that kept the same advertisement running in the Macedonia newspaper for at least six years — the steadiest kind of endorse...
Address: 79 Winter Avenue, Scarborough, ON
Telephone: (416) 267-6033
Macedonian connection: An east-end garage that advertised in the Macedonia newspaper continuously across at least 2017–2022.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202017.pdf
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Todor Kajcevski — BMW Autohaus
Community-affiliated
Todor Kajcevski and his BMW Autohaus colleagues put up the hole-in-one cars at the Macedonian Open — the tournament's flashiest prize, backed by a Macedonian na...
Macedonian connection: Kajcevski and colleagues sponsor the Macedonian Open's hole-in-one prizes through BMW Autohaus.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Retail & services
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Canadiana Flowers
The Mangos family's east-end flower shop has decorated the community's weddings, galas and memorials for decades — the Macedonia newspaper plainly calls it Mace...
Address: 3087 Kingston Road, Toronto, ON M1M 1P1
Telephone: 416-265-6867 / 1-888-265-7673
Website: https://www.canadianaflowers.com
Macedonian connection: Identified as Macedonian-owned in the Macedonia newspaper (May 2025); the Mangos family are perennial in-kind and silver sponsors of Canadian Macedonian Place's events.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/May,%202025.pdf
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Heritage Funeral Centre
Community-affiliated
Four generations of the Day family have run this funeral home since Ralph C. Day opened on the Danforth in 1922, and for Toronto's Macedonians it has long been...
Website: https://www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca
Macedonian connection: Not Macedonian-owned, but the community's funeral home of long standing: a Macedonian-language website, platinum sponsorship of MAKFEST, cart sponsorship of the Macedonian Open, and owner Glen Day personally funded St Clement of Ohrid's online-giving platform.
Sources: https://www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca/about-us/our-story
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National Show Systems
Rob Sandolowich's staging and show-services firm builds the technical bones of Toronto's big events — and gives its work away when the community calls, from AV...
Macedonian connection: Rob Sandolowich has donated staging and AV to CMHS's own events, and his firm appears among the ReImagine Gala's in-kind sponsors; the Sandolowich family's community record runs back to the 1950s folk-dance floors.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Zee Work Agency Inc.
Community-affiliated
A staffing agency recorded among the Unity-level sponsors of the ReImagine Gala for Canadian Macedonian Place. Listed from the gala's honour roll; details from...
Macedonian connection: A Unity-level sponsor of Canadian Macedonian Place's ReImagine Gala.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Canadian Macedonian Books & Reviews
A Canadian Macedonian books-and-reviews venture that the society's own links page has long carried under Arts, Books & DVDs — part of the small, determined publ...
Website: http://www.cdnmacibooks-views.com
Macedonian connection: Listed on CMHS's own community links page as the Canadian Macedonian books resource.
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/links
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Empowered — Elizabeth Naumovski
After more than twenty-five years on Bay Street, Elizabeth Naumovski turned to teaching the subject Canada's schools skip: money. Her Empowered platform — inter...
Website: https://empoweredtv.ca
Macedonian connection: Elizabeth Naumovski, a Macedonian-Canadian Bay Street veteran recognised by Macedonia 2025, created the Empowered financial-literacy platform.
Sources: https://empoweredtv.ca/
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Georgi Danevski — Iconography & Fine Art Георги Даневски
Georgi Danevski trained in Skopje and Ljubljana, painted across Europe, and settled in Toronto in 1995, where the Macedonian community's two great sanctuaries b...
Macedonian connection: Born in Saramzalino, Macedonia; master iconographer of the community's cathedrals.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Danevski
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Jim Grouios Photography
The photographer whose credit line appears under Canadian Macedonian Place's event coverage in the Zdravets newsletter — one of the professionals who make sure...
Macedonian connection: Credited as event photographer in Canadian Macedonian Place's newsletters.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/10343-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage.pdf
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Macedonia Newspaper (Весник „Македонија“) Весник „Македонија“
Every month since November 1984, Macedonia has arrived in the community's churches, delis and pharmacies — more than 490 issues of news from the diaspora and th...
Address: 1840 Bloor Street, Suite 711, Mississauga, ON L4X 1T2
Telephone: 416-827-0954
Website: https://macedonianewspaper.com
Macedonian connection: The Macedonian-Canadian community's newspaper of record for over forty years.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June,%202026.pdf
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Macedonian Edition TV
Pobeda Piskaceva emigrated from Macedonia in 1990 with a law degree and a journalist's instincts, and in 1998 she launched Macedonian Edition on Rogers Cable —...
Telephone: (416) 503-2285
Website: http://macedonianedition.tv
Macedonian connection: Pobeda Piskaceva — trained as a lawyer in Macedonia, emigrated in 1990 — has produced, shot, written and reported the programme since 1998.
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/news/2nd-annual-canadian-immigration-celebration-women-their-accomplishments — Society news archive — the profile of Pobeda Piskaceva and Macedonian Edition
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Mack Media Inc.
Frank Mackovski's media company enters the community's record not through an advertisement but through the 2022 Zdravets newsletter's thank-you column: when Can...
Macedonian connection: Frank Mackovski's firm donated protective face shields to Canadian Macedonian Place through the pandemic.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter_2022.pdf
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Michael Close — Fine Art
An OCAD-trained Canadian Macedonian painter whose canvases carried the community's name to the highest tables: when the prime ministers of Canada and Macedonia...
Macedonian connection: A Canadian Macedonian artist; his paintings were the official gifts presented to the prime ministers of Canada and Macedonia at their diplomatic meeting.
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/news/canadian-macedonian-artist
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Zoran Karapancev Photography
The camera the cathedral itself credits: Zoran Karapancev photographs the community's weddings, festivals and church life, and St Clement of Ohrid's own website...
Macedonian connection: The photographer credited on St Clement of Ohrid Cathedral's website.
Sources: https://www.stclementofohrid.com/
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Technology
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Mobilen Communications Inc.
Christopher Stojcev's telecommunications venture — its very name is the Macedonian word for 'mobile' — appears among the Macedonian Open's bronze sponsors with...
Macedonian connection: Founder Christopher Stojcev sponsors the Macedonian Open through the company.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Remote Possibilities Integrated Systems
Chris Popalis's integration firm has sponsored the Macedonian Open since at least the late 2010s, most recently as raffle sponsor, while Popalis himself serves...
Macedonian connection: Chris Popalis — a Canadian Macedonian Place director and Macedonian Open committee member — sponsors the tournament through his systems firm.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/10343-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage.pdf
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Rumble Inc.
Chris Pavlovski grew up in the GTA's Macedonian community, studied at U of T Mississauga, and founded Rumble in Toronto in October 2013 as a video platform for...
Website: https://rumble.com
Macedonian connection: Founded in Toronto by Chris Pavlovski, GTA-raised and of Macedonian descent; a Macedonia 2025 board member active in the Macedonian-Canadian community; earlier co-founded Cosmic Development with a Skopje office.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pavlovski
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Travel
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Vic Tours — Danny Risteski
Community-affiliated
A Vaughan tour operator whose Europe desk carried a Macedonian name: Danny Risteski advertised Vic Tours' programmes in the Macedonia newspaper, keeping the dia...
Address: 101-8800 Dufferin Street, Concord, ON L4K 0C5
Telephone: 416-631-3141 / 1-800-668-7475
Website: https://www.victours.ca
Macedonian connection: Danny Risteski marketed the tour operator's Europe programmes to the community through the Macedonia newspaper.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202019.pdf
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Entertainment & gaming
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Bingo World Gaming
The charitable-gaming business of the Karapalevski and Kereakou families, whose sponsorship of the Macedonian Open has covered everything from raffles to tourna...
Macedonian connection: The Karapalevski and Kereakou families' gaming business is a standing Macedonian Open sponsor.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Dolphin Gaming
Community-affiliated
A charitable-gaming operation that sponsors the Macedonian Open at gold level under Irene Kaye and Peter and Paul Nitsopoulos. Listed from Canadian Macedonian P...
Macedonian connection: A gold-tier Macedonian Open sponsor under the Nitsopoulos family names.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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The honour roll
Macedonian names at the top of Canadian business. They sit apart so that a Nasdaq-listed company does not share a row with a dental practice.
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Bird Canada
Community-affiliated
The Canadian arm of the Bird e-scooter network operates within John Bitove Jr.'s Obelysk portfolio — the newest wheels in a family story that began with deliver...
Macedonian connection: The Canadian e-scooter operator sits in the Obelysk portfolio.
Sources: https://obelysk.com
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Macedonia 2025
The diaspora's economic engine room: a non-political 'think and do tank' founded in 2007 to lift North Macedonia's economy through competitiveness, entrepreneur...
Website: https://www.macedonia2025.com
Macedonian connection: The diaspora's business 'think & do tank', founded and led in large part by Macedonian-Canadian executives.
Sources: https://www.macedonia2025.com/
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Obelysk Inc.
From an office on Bay Street, John Bitove Jr. runs the family's third-generation act: Obelysk, the holding company whose portfolio spans SiriusXM Canada, the Ca...
Address: 161 Bay Street, Suite 2300, Toronto, ON M5J 2S1
Website: https://obelysk.com
Macedonian connection: The investment house of John Bitove Jr., grandson of Macedonian immigrants from Gabresh (Kostur region); founder of the Toronto Raptors bid, XM Canada and Mobilicity.
Sources: https://obelysk.com
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SiriusXM Canada
Community-affiliated
Canada's largest subscription-radio service exists because John Bitove Jr. founded Canadian Satellite Radio in 2002, brought XM to Canada in 2005, and steered t...
Website: https://www.siriusxm.ca
Macedonian connection: Canada's satellite-radio company was founded, and is still part-controlled, by John Bitove Jr. of the Macedonian-Canadian Bitove family.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiriusXM_Canada
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Torstar / The Toronto Star
Community-affiliated
In 2020 Jordan Bitove co-led NordStar Capital's $60-million purchase of Torstar, and after the partnership's 2022–23 arbitrated split he emerged as sole owner a...
Website: https://www.thestar.com
Macedonian connection: Canada's largest-circulation newspaper is owned and published by Jordan Bitove, third generation of the Macedonian-Canadian Bitove family.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torstar
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Heritage
The businesses that built the community. All of these are closed; the directory above is what they paid for.
The first Macedonians reached Toronto around the turn of the last century, overwhelmingly young men from the Aegean villages — Zhelevo, Oshchima, Banitsa, Gabresh, Buf — and the failed Ilinden Uprising of 1903 turned a trickle into a migration. An internal community census counted about 1,090 Macedonians in the city by 1910, clustered in three settlements, the largest of them around King Street East and Eastern Avenue. They worked the abattoirs, the foundries and the sheet-metal shops, lived in boarding houses, and organised village mutual-benefit societies — the Zhelevo Benevolence Brotherhood and the Oshchima Benefit Society, both founded in 1907 — which served as the community's first banks and its first employment bureaus. The earliest businesses served the colony itself: Slave Petroff and Company sold steamship tickets, wired remittances home and ran a labour bureau, and by about 1910 Lambo Tenekeff, whom everyone called Mr. Louis, had turned three years of butchering into Louis Meat Market.
Factory hands became counter men. Over the next half-century Macedonians moved out of abattoir shifts and into food shops of their own — butchers, grocers, dairy bars, fruit markets, shoe-shine parlours, and above all restaurants: lunch counters, grills, fish-and-chip shops and burger rooms. Professor Harry Vjekoslav Herman's study Men in White Aprons documented both the mechanism and the result. The mechanism was kinship: village partnerships, a brother-in-law's loan, a dishwasher who became a cook and then an owner. The result, as Professor Herman's research was presented to this society, was that by 1970 Macedonian families owned or operated more than a fifth of the independent restaurants and diners of the Greater Toronto Area. The trade acquired its own institution in the Canadian Macedonian Restaurant Co-op, founded in 1970, and its profits paid, systematically, for the next generation's professional degrees.
A few of those rooms lasted long enough to be remembered by name: the Majestic, opened in Hamilton by Dan Kuzoff in 1933; the Patrician Grill on King Street East, opened by Louie Papas in 1953 and closed in 2026 after seventy years; the 3 Star in the Beach, bought by Tom Gulin in 1955. Beyond Toronto the same pattern repeated in Hamilton, in Windsor, and in towns like Welland, where a Macedonian grocery store or restaurant anchored a family economy for two generations.
Two families turned the food trade into national business. Steve Stavro, born in Gabresh in 1926 and brought to Toronto in 1933, was a butcher's son who left school after Grade 10; his produce stand of 1951 became Knob Hill Farms, and its "food terminals" — from Markham in 1963 to the 340,000-square-foot Cambridge store billed in 1991 as the largest food store in the world — invented the Canadian big-box grocery decades before Costco crossed the border. His fortune bought the Toronto Maple Leafs and built the arena now called Scotiabank Arena. John Bitove Sr., born in Toronto in 1928 to immigrants from the same village, went from a fourteen-stool lunch room called the Java Shoppe to forty franchise outlets, then to the catering contracts for Pearson Airport and the SkyDome, merged in 1989 into one of Canada's largest private food-service companies. Both men banked the community as they rose — Stavro through his family foundation, Bitove by founding Canadian Macedonian Place in 1978 with his wife Dotsa.
Their children's generation went to university. The restaurant families produced the lawyers, accountants, physicians, dentists and realtors who fill this directory's modern pages, and by 1992 those professions had organised themselves into the Canadian Macedonian Business and Professional Association and the Macedonian Canadian Medical Society, now the Canadian Macedonian Health Professionals' Association. A second marquee generation emerged alongside them: John Bitove Jr., who won Toronto the NBA's Raptors in 1993 and founded XM Radio Canada; Mike Zafirovski, born in Skopje, who ran Nortel Networks from 2005 to 2009; and Susan Niczowski, who built Summer Fresh out of her mother's kitchen in 1991 into a North American prepared-foods company.
The pattern holds today at both ends of the scale. Jordan Bitove owns and publishes the Toronto Star; Chris Pavlovski's Toronto-founded Rumble trades on the Nasdaq. On the main street there is the Damceskis' California Restaurant on Pape Avenue, the Georgievskis' Macedonia Secrets, an Oakville aerospace plant that advertises its jobs in Macedonian, the Stanwyck cheese works, and the realtors, dentists and contractors whose names fill the Macedonia newspaper's advertising columns and the Macedonian Open's sponsor boards. A new Canadian Macedonian Chamber of Commerce began organising in 2025. The businesses below are closed now, but the community they built — and the businesses that fill the directory above — are their receipts.
A hundred and twenty years, in dates
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1903
The Ilinden Uprising fails; mass emigration from Aegean Macedonia begins.
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1907
The Zhelevo Benevolence Brotherhood and the Oshchima Benefit Society are founded in Toronto — the community's first banks and employment bureaus.
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1910
A community census counts about 1,090 Macedonians in Toronto. Louis Meat Market opens around this time.
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1911
Sts Cyril and Methody, the community's first church, is founded.
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1919
Nikola and Vana Bitove arrive from Gabresh.
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1926
Steve Stavro is born in Gabresh; some sources give 1927.
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1933
The Stavro family reaches Toronto. Dan Kuzoff opens the Majestic in Hamilton.
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1940
More than 1,200 Macedonian families are living in Toronto.
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1942
The first Macedonian Open golf tournament is played.
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1947–49
The Greek Civil War sends the Detsa Begalci refugee generation to Canada; many later prominent in business.
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c.1949
A teenage John Bitove Sr. opens the fourteen-stool Java Shoppe.
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1951
Steve Stavro's produce stand opens on Queen Street East — the seed of Knob Hill Farms.
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1953
Louie Papas opens the Patrician Grill on King Street East.
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1955
Tom Gulin buys the 3 Star Restaurant in the Beach.
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1959
The United Macedonians Organization is founded; Ensemble Makedonka is formed.
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1962–65
St Clement of Ohrid Cathedral is chartered, and opens for services three years later.
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1963
The first Knob Hill Farms food terminal opens in Markham — Canada's big-box grocery pioneer. The Skopje earthquake drives a new wave of emigration.
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1970
The Canadian Macedonian Restaurant Co-op is founded. Professor Herman's research puts Macedonians at more than 20 per cent of the GTA's independent restaurants.
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1978
John and Dotsa Bitove found Canadian Macedonian Place; some sources give 1979.
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1979
VAC Developments is founded by the Hristovski family.
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1983
York County Quality Foods wins the Pearson Airport catering contract.
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1984
Tanas Jovanovski founds the Macedonia newspaper.
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1989
The Bitove Corporation is formed; John Bitove Sr. is appointed to the Order of Canada.
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1991
Knob Hill's Cambridge terminal opens as the "world's largest food store". Summer Fresh is founded, and so is this society.
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1992
The Canadian Macedonian Business and Professional Association and the Macedonian Canadian Medical Society are founded.
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1993
The NBA awards the Raptors to John Bitove Jr.'s group on 30 September.
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1994
Steve Stavro takes control of Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd.
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1996
Kosta Stanwyck founds Triple "A" Cheese with his sons Chris and Tom.
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1999
The Air Canada Centre opens under Stavro's chairmanship.
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2000–01
Knob Hill Farms closes; every debt and every employee is paid in full.
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2002–05
John Bitove Jr. founds Canadian Satellite Radio; XM launches in Canada.
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2006
Steve Stavro dies. The Macedonian Film Festival is founded.
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2007
This society republishes Men in White Aprons with the Restaurant Co-op and the Argiro family. Macedonia 2025 is founded.
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2013
Rumble is founded in Toronto by Chris Pavlovski.
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2015
John Bitove Sr. dies; Mobilicity is sold to Rogers.
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2019
Kosta Stanwyck, at 89, buys the Macedonian Mermaid Motel in Wasaga Beach.
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2020–23
Jordan Bitove acquires Torstar and becomes sole owner and publisher of the Toronto Star.
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2022
Rumble lists on the Nasdaq. John Bitove Jr. enters the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame.
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2024
Canadian Macedonian Place's ReImagine Gala honours Susan Niczowski and raises $825,000.
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2025
Chris Pavlovski becomes a billionaire. A Canadian Macedonian Chamber of Commerce begins organising.
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2026
The Patrician Grill closes after seventy years. This directory is compiled.
The businesses that came first
Closed, remembered, and part of why the rest of this directory exists.
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3 Star Restaurant
Closed 1979
Tom Gulin arrived from Macedonia in 1948, aged twelve, shined shoes, waited tables, and by 1955 owned the 3 Star at Kingston and Balsam, working five in the mor...
Address: 919 Kingston Road, Toronto
Macedonian connection: Tom Gulin came from Macedonia in 1948 at age twelve; by 1955 he owned this Kingston Road diner.
Sources: https://beachmetro.com/2023/03/31/remembering-the-3-star-restaurant-on-kingston-road/
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Bitove Corporation
Closed wound down after the 1990s–2000s
Formed in 1989 by merging the Pearson Airport operation with the SkyDome fine-dining concession Bitove had won two years earlier with a five-million-dollar comm...
Macedonian connection: The merger of York County Quality Foods with the SkyDome catering concession created one of Canada's largest privately held food-service companies, in the hands of a Gabresh family.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bitove_Sr.
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Cav-A-Bob
The nightclub chapter of the young Bitove portfolio — proof that the family read the whole hospitality market, from morning coffee at the Java Shoppe to evening...
Macedonian connection: One of Bitove Sr.'s early hospitality ventures alongside the Java Shoppe.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bitove_Sr.
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Gateway Fish & Chips (Aurora) and Villa Fish & Chips (West Rouge)
After selling the 3 Star in 1970, Tom Gulin did what a Macedonian restaurateur did between restaurants: opened two more — Gateway Fish and Chips in Aurora and V...
Macedonian connection: Tom Gulin's shops after he sold the 3 Star — the fish-and-chips trade was a Macedonian staple.
Sources: https://beachmetro.com/2023/03/31/remembering-the-3-star-restaurant-on-kingston-road/
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JB's of Canada (Big Boy & Roy Rogers franchises)
Closed circa 1979
Through the 1970s, JB's of Canada ran roughly forty Big Boy and Roy Rogers outlets under John Bitove Sr.'s Canadian franchise rights — the decade in which a Mac...
Macedonian connection: Bitove Sr. held the Canadian rights to Big Boy and Roy Rogers, running about forty outlets.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bitove_Sr.
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Julie's
The fine-dining room in John Bitove Sr.'s first portfolio — the polished end of a spectrum that ran from coffee counters to nightclubs, and the apprenticeship f...
Macedonian connection: Bitove Sr.'s fine-dining house, part of the family's first restaurant portfolio.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bitove_Sr.
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Knob Hill Farms
Closed 2000–2001
Steve Stavro's produce stand at 1598 Queen Street East — across the road from his father's butcher shop — grew into the grocery chain that taught Canada to shop...
Macedonian connection: Founded by Steve Stavro, who arrived from Gabresh as a boy in 1933 and left school after Grade 10 to work in his father's butcher shop.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knob_Hill_Farms
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Knob Hill Stable
Closed wound down after 2006
Steve Stavro's other passion ran on four legs. Knob Hill Stable, founded in 1967, campaigned more than eighty thoroughbreds, took a Sovereign Award with Benburb...
Macedonian connection: Steve Stavro's racing stable — more than eighty thoroughbreds at its peak.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Stavro
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Leisure World — the Macedonian Wing
Closed 2014
From 2001 to 2014 a Toronto Leisure World facility kept a dedicated Macedonian wing — care in the community's own language a generation before such things becam...
Macedonian connection: A dedicated Macedonian wing within a Toronto nursing facility, recorded in Canadian Macedonian Place's newsletter.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/13886-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage-FINAL.pdf
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Louis Meat Market
Lambo Anastasoff Tenekeff landed in 1907 from Gabresh, aged twelve, worked three years as a butcher, and opened his own grocery and meat market — becoming 'Mr....
Macedonian connection: Documented in this society's own genealogy archive — one of the earliest recorded Macedonian-owned shops in Toronto.
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/genealogy
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Louis P. Strezos, Barrister & Solicitor
Louis Strezos ran a criminal, constitutional and appellate practice from Bedford Road, advertised it in the Macedonia newspaper, gave to Canadian Macedonian Pla...
Address: 15 Bedford Road, Toronto
Macedonian connection: The criminal and constitutional practice of Louis Strezos, who advertised in the Macedonia newspaper and later joined the bench.
Sources: https://macedonianewspaper.com/files/uploads/June%202017.pdf
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Macedonian Village, Whitby
Around 1945 two Macedonian immigrants, Stato Kozaroff and Vasil Phillips, founded an actual place called Macedonian Village in what is now Whitby — enterprise a...
Macedonian connection: A hamlet founded by two Macedonian immigrants, commemorated today by Phillips-Kozaroff Park.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Canadians
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Majestic Restaurant
Closed 1969 (expropriated for Jackson Square)
Dan Kuzoff, a Macedonian immigrant, opened the Majestic in downtown Hamilton in 1933 and built it into a 150-to-200-seat room where mayors — Lloyd Jackson, Vic...
Macedonian connection: Founded by Dan Kuzoff, a Macedonian immigrant, per Hamilton Public Library's Local History & Archives.
Sources: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hpllocalhistory/14001037617/
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Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd. — the Stavro years
Closed sold 2003
The boy who sorted fruit on Queen Street ended up owning the Toronto Maple Leafs. Steve Stavro joined the Maple Leaf Gardens board in 1981, took the chair in 19...
Macedonian connection: The grocer from Gabresh became owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the driving force behind the arena now called Scotiabank Arena.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Stavro
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Mobilicity
Closed sold to Rogers, 2015
Bitove's run at the wireless oligopoly: Mobilicity launched in 2010 as a discount carrier in Canada's biggest cities and was sold to Rogers Communications in 20...
Macedonian connection: The discount wireless carrier founded by John Bitove Jr.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bitove
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Montecito Restaurant
Closed 2020s
The Bitove brothers' Entertainment District restaurant, opened with filmmaker Ivan Reitman, carried the family's hospitality name into Toronto's premiere-night...
Macedonian connection: The Bitove brothers' Adelaide Street restaurant, which sent Mother's Day lunch to Canadian Macedonian Place's residents during the pandemic.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter_2022.pdf
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Nortel Networks — the Zafirovski years
Closed Nortel entered creditor protection 2009
Nortel was never a Macedonian company, but from 2005 to 2009 the century-old giant was steered by one: Mike Zafirovski, born in Skopje in 1953, formerly of Gene...
Macedonian connection: Canada's telecom giant was led through its final chapter by Skopje-born Mike Zafirovski — an affiliation entry, not a Macedonian-owned business.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Zafirovski
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Patrician Grill
Closed 9 May 2026
For seventy years the Papas family kept the grill on at 219 King East — Louie, newly arrived from Greek Macedonia in 1953, then his son Terry, serving all-day b...
Address: 219 King Street East, Toronto
Macedonian connection: Founded by Louie Papas, a Greek-Macedonian immigrant, and run by his family for seventy years.
Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/patrician-grill-closing-after-70-years-9.7167062
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Priszm Income Fund (KFC / Pizza Hut / Taco Bell Canada)
Closed CCAA 2011; stores sold by 2012
For most of a decade, more than half of Canada's KFC outlets — 428 restaurants, nine thousand employees, roughly $450 million in yearly revenue — answered to Pr...
Macedonian connection: At its height the Bitove-chaired fund ran 428 KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants — about 60 per cent of KFC's Canadian outlets.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priszm
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Scott's REIT / KEYreit
Closed sold 2013
The property side of the fried-chicken empire: Scott's REIT, later KEYreit, held the land and buildings beneath hundreds of quick-service restaurants with John...
Macedonian connection: The Bitove-chaired REIT that held the real estate under hundreds of quick-service restaurants.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bitove
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Slave Petroff and Company
Before there were restaurants there was the agency: Slave Petroff and Company sold steamship passages, moved remittances to the villages and ran a labour bureau...
Macedonian connection: The pre-First-World-War agency that sold the tickets, wired the money and found the jobs for Toronto's first Macedonian colony.
Sources: https://torontomanyfaces.wixsite.com/ebook/47-the-macedonian-community
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The Java Shoppe
Closed 1960s (absorbed into later ventures)
A fourteen-stool coffee counter opened by a teenaged John Bitove Sr. — with Dotsa beside him — became five locations by 1962 and the seed of the largest private...
Macedonian connection: The fourteen-stool coffee shop where the Bitove empire began; John Sr. was the Toronto-born son of immigrants from Gabresh.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bitove_Sr.
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The Toronto Raptors — the Bitove founding
Closed Bitove sold his stake in 1996–97
On 30 September 1993 the NBA awarded Toronto its expansion franchise to a bid led by 33-year-old John Bitove Jr., who named the team the Raptors, served as its...
Macedonian connection: The NBA came to Canada because John Bitove Jr. — grandson of Gabresh immigrants — won the expansion bid.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bitove
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Toronto Travel Advantage — Danny Ry
The society's news archive preserves the scene: a community charity evening, a 'lucky draw' of prizes donated by Macedonian businesses, and the grand prize — a...
Macedonian connection: A community travel agency remembered in the society's archive as donor of the grand prize — a Florida trip — at a Macedonian charity evening.
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/news/macedonian-kolede-costume-ball — Society news archive — the Kolede ball, whose grand prize Danny Ry and Toronto Travel Advantage donated
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York County Quality Foods
Closed merged into Bitove Corporation 1989
In 1983 John Bitove Sr.'s York County Quality Foods took the ten-year food-and-beverage contract at Toronto Pearson away from the incumbent giant — the win that...
Macedonian connection: The Bitove vehicle that beat the incumbent for Toronto Pearson's food-and-beverage contract.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bitove_Sr.
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Organisations & media
The churches, associations and publications the community's business life has always run through. Listed for reference, not as businesses.
Churches
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St Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral Македонска православна катедрала „Св. Климент Охридски“
The founding cathedral of Macedonian Canada and seat of the diocese for America and Canada; home of Ensemble Makedonka, MAKFEST, the Miladinov Brothers Literary...
Address: 76 Overlea Blvd, Toronto, ON M4H 1C5
Telephone: (416) 421-7451
Website: https://www.stclementofohrid.com
Sources: https://www.stclementofohrid.com
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St Dimitrija Solunski Macedonian Orthodox Church
Markham's Macedonian parish, its interior painted with more than a thousand icons by Georgi Danevski; renovated hall available for rent; parish priest Fr. Goran...
Address: 201 Main Street North, Markham, ON L3P 1Y4
Telephone: (905) 471-5555
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Dimitrija_Solunski_Macedonian_Orthodox_Church,_Markham,_Ontario
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St Ilija Macedonian Orthodox Church
Serving Mississauga and the west GTA since 1979; Vasilica celebrations, Ladies' Auxiliary, River Side seniors' group; sponsored the Macedonian pavilion at Bramp...
Address: 1775 Bristol Road West, Mississauga, ON L5M 2Y5
Telephone: (905) 821-8050
Website: https://st-ilija.ca
Sources: https://st-ilija.ca
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St Mary Macedonian Orthodox Church
The parish of the Cambridge–Kitchener–Guelph Macedonian community, one of Ontario's oldest outside Toronto.
Address: 50 Augusta Street, Cambridge, ON N1R 1G1
Telephone: (519) 622-1725
Website: http://stmarymoc.ca
Sources: http://stmarymoc.ca
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St Naum of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Church
Hamilton's Macedonian parish since 1970, on Stone Church Road since 2003, with a banquet hall and an annual Macedonian festival at the heart of the Hamilton com...
Address: 1150 Stone Church Road East, Hamilton, ON L8W 2C7
Telephone: (905) 387-0111
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Naum_of_Ohrid_Macedonian_Orthodox_Church_(Hamilton,_Ontario)
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St Nedela Macedonian Orthodox Church
Durham's Macedonian parish: banquet hall for 250, Macedonian Folklore Dance School, seniors' group, traditional summer festival and an annual golf tournament in...
Address: 485 Bayly Street West, Ajax, ON L1S 6M7
Telephone: (905) 426-5355
Website: https://stnedela.org
Sources: https://stnedela.org
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St Nicholas Macedonian Orthodox Church & Community Centre
The Windsor-Essex community's sixteen-acre home: church, two banquet halls with fifty years of catering experience, soccer field, the Carrousel of the Nations M...
Address: 5225 Howard Avenue, LaSalle, ON N9H 0J2
Telephone: (519) 966-6257
Website: https://stnicholasmacedoniancentre.ca
Sources: https://stnicholasmacedoniancentre.ca
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Sts Cyril and Methody Macedono-Bulgarian Cathedral
The community's first church, founded 1910–11 by the pre-war villages' generation, which also ran the first Macedono-Bulgarian school in the Americas from 1914;...
Website: http://www.scmcathedral.com
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Canadians
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Associations & institutions
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Association of Refugee Children from Aegean Macedonia (ARCAM)
Founded in 1979 to unite the Detsa Begalci — the child refugees of the Greek Civil War — whose Canadian generation includes some of the entrepreneurs in this di...
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Canadians
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Canadian Macedonian Business Network
A business association recorded in community references with president Nick Kuburovski; successor in spirit to the Canadian Macedonian Business and Professional...
Address: 3-100 West Beaver Creek Road, Richmond Hill, ON
Telephone: (905) 764-7816
Sources: https://torontomanyfaces.wixsite.com/ebook/47-the-macedonian-community
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Canadian Macedonian Chamber of Commerce
The community's newest institution: a chamber founded to support Macedonian entrepreneurs and professionals in Canada and strengthen Canada–Macedonia economic t...
Website: https://www.canmaccc.com
Sources: https://www.canmaccc.com/
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Canadian Macedonian Health Professionals' Association
Founded in 1992 as the Macedonian Canadian Medical Society — the community's physicians, dentists and allied professionals organised under one roof.
Sources: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/macedonians
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Canadian Macedonian Heritage Society Канадско македонско наследствено друштво
This directory's publisher: the volunteer charity (est. 1991 as the Canadian Macedonian Historical Society) that chronicles the Canadian Macedonian experience t...
Address: 850 O'Connor Drive, Toronto, ON M4B 3L6
Telephone: 416-755-3117
Website: https://macedonianhistory.ca
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/about
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Canadian Macedonian Place Канадско македонски дом
The community's flagship institution: a seniors' residence founded by John and Dotsa Bitove, home to more than a hundred Macedonian-Canadian elders, the Zdravet...
Address: 850 O'Connor Drive, Toronto, ON M4B 3L6
Telephone: 416-755-9231
Website: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com
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Canadian Macedonian Restaurant Co-op
The restaurateurs' own association from the trade's golden age — and the sponsor, with Helen and Angelo Argiro, of this society's 2007 republication of 'Men in...
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/html/events/men_in_white_aprons.html
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Daughters of Macedonia
A giving circle recorded among Canadian Macedonian Place's Unity-level gala sponsors.
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Ensemble Makedonka
North America's premier Macedonian dance ensemble, resident at St Clement of Ohrid for over half a century.
Website: https://www.ensemblemakedonka.com
Sources: https://www.ensemblemakedonka.com/about-us
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Lerin Region Macedonian Cultural Association of Canada
The association of families from the Lerin (Florina) region of Aegean Macedonia — donors to Canadian Macedonian Place and hosts of community celebrations decora...
Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Zdravets-Newsletter-Spring-2026.pdf
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Macedonia 2025
The diaspora's business development organisation; see the honour-roll entry for its deep Canadian bench.
Website: https://www.macedonia2025.com
Sources: https://www.macedonia2025.com/
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Macedonian Business Association of Canada
Founded January 2012 with a board including Vasko Pastenarov, Antoni Bozinovski, Vesna Anastasova, Zoran Ivanovski, Vase Georgievska, Vlatko Cokov and Filip Spa...
Sources: http://macedonia-tourism.blogspot.com/2012/01/macedonian-business-association-of.html
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Macedonian Centre for Cultural & Social Integration
A cultural and social integration organisation carried on the society's community links page.
Website: http://www.macedoniancentre.ca
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/links
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Macedonian Film Festival
Twenty editions and two hundred films of Macedonian cinema for Canadian audiences, most recently at Imagine Cinemas Carlton.
Website: https://www.macedonianfilmfestival.com
Sources: https://www.macedonianfilmfestival.com
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United Macedonians Organization of Canada
The community's oldest umbrella body, organiser of the Ilinden picnic and Goce Delchev Night for more than six decades.
Website: http://unitedmacedonians.org
Sources: http://unitedmacedonians.org
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Zhelevo Benevolence Brotherhood
One of the two 1907 mutual-benefit societies — with the Oshchima Benefit Society 'St Nicholas' — through which the first generation found jobs, loans and funera...
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Canadians
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Media
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Canadian Macedonian Media Group
A community media channel carried on the society's links page.
Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv6Ui46Prv8Wu2OovfdbC9w
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/links
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Canadian-Macedonian News
The not-for-profit community paper published from 850 O'Connor Drive, six times yearly, alongside CMP's Zdravets newsletter.
Address: 850 O'Connor Drive, Toronto, ON
Sources: https://torontomanyfaces.wixsite.com/ebook/47-the-macedonian-community
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Macedonia Radio (CHKT 1430 AM)
Saturday-morning Macedonian radio on Toronto's CHKT 1430 AM, per community references.
Telephone: (905) 265-2197
Sources: https://torontomanyfaces.wixsite.com/ebook/47-the-macedonian-community
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Macedonian Edition TV (media reference)
Pobeda Piskaceva's community television programme — see the full business entry under Media & creative.
Website: http://macedonianedition.tv
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/links
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Macedonian Heritage Hour
The long-running heritage television programme (formerly on OMNI as Makedonski Koreni), now reaching the community on YouTube.
Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvIVbEWeZshaWNKiNSNnTw
Sources: https://macedonianhistory.ca/links
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Voice of Macedonia (CMR 101.3 FM)
Sunday-evening Macedonian radio on CMR 101.3, per community references.
Telephone: (416) 593-0055
Sources: https://torontomanyfaces.wixsite.com/ebook/47-the-macedonian-community
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