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Bata Shoe Museum announces death of founder, Sonja Bata

07/03/2018
Bata Shoe Museum announces death of founder, Sonja Bata

Founder of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Sonja Bata, has died at the age of 91. Sonja Bata was born in Switzerland and married Tomas Bata, son of the founder of Bata Shoes, in 1946; the couple moved to Canada soon afterwards and ran the Bata shoe business from there. Travelling around the world with her husband, she began to collect shoes and...

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