Batawa is a town founded by Thomas J. Bata in the 1930s, and location of the Bata Shoe Company's Old Shoe factory. The town is located in eastern Ontario, Canada near the city of Trenton. Thomas J Bata was born in 1914 in the Moravian village of Zlin, in what is now the Czech Republic, to Czech industrialist Tomas Bata. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... Eastern Ontario is the region of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies between the Ottawa and St. ... Categories: Stub | Ontario communities | Coastal towns of Canada ...