Donald Oborowsky (born 1949 in Cactus Lake, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist, based in Edmonton, Alberta.
That same year, he commenced his apprenticeship as a carpenter[2] at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, at the initiative of his employer, a small, residential building contractor.
[3] Following work as a carpenter, he obtained employment as a steel fitter,[4] leaving his carpentry apprenticeship program after three and a half years.
[3] In 1971, at the age of twenty-two,[4] he co-founded, with Theodore Degner,[5] Waiward Steel Fabricators Ltd.[1] and became the company's Chief Executive Officer.
[8] In 2007, at the age of fifty-eight, Oborowsky wrote the examinations to complete his long interrupted carpentry apprenticeship and obtained his Red Seal certificate.