Jennifer Kateryna Kobal’s’kyj
I became curious about this story when I encountered two different memorial plaques for this girl in two different churches on the same day. Jennifer Kateryna, 24 Aug 1989 to 2 April 1996. She would have been just a couple of months older than my daughter.
In 1997 her maternal grandfather erected a plaque in her memory in Metropolitan United church.
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There is another plaque, this one at St. James Cathedral, erected by her mother, maternal grandfather and aunt in 1998.
The death of a child is never a happy event, but Jennifer’s story is one of the sadder ones as she was murdered by her father as she tried to protect her grandmother from him. Sadder still is the fact that she had been living with her grandmother as part of the settlement in a custody dispute.
Polson Street Park, where the Don River meets Lake Ontario, was officially changed to Jennifer Kateryna Kobal’s’kyj Park in 1998. This park is at the end of Polson Pier, overlooking Toronto Harbour.
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as I walk Toronto 