He came to Canada, age 22, from the town of Weizin the foothills of the Austrian Alps. He had grownup in a working-class neighbourhood ravaged by war and depression, leaving school at 14 years to apprentice as a tool and die maker. Driven by a desire to travel the world, he arrived in Montreal,1954, travelled by bus to Kitchener, Ontario, where he landed a job as a dishwasher in a local hospital. After saving enough money, he moved to Toronto, 1957, purchased some second-hand lathesand milling machines and set up shop. Within one year, he had ten employees. Several decades later, Frank Stronach, the young man who immigrated to Canada, had parlayed his business into Magna International Inc., the world’s most diversified automobile parts supplier with some 54,000 employees and annual sales over 14 billion dollars. Creating a revolutionary new economic culture known as Fair Enterprise, the cornerstone of which is a Corporate Constitution guaranteeing the rights of employees, management, and investors to share in profits, Frank Stronach is more than a householdname in Canada. A distinguished Canadian who has helped bring to Canada international recognition with his racing stables, Frank Stronach, Member, Order of Canada, is very much a visionary worldfigure charting Magna’s growth as a prominent global leader in the automotive industry. [Photo, courtesy Magna International]