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Scene: Polish Plane Crash, One Year Later

WHERE: Roncesvalles, between St. Casimir’s Roman Catholic Church and King Street WHEN: 12:30–1 p.m. Sunday WHAT: Toronto’s Polish community gathered today to mark the one year anniversary of the devastating plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and many legislative and military leaders. The delegation in the plane had been attempting to land at Smolensk, [...]

Toronto’s Polish Community Mourns

On April 10, at 10:56 a.m. Moscow time, a twenty-year-old plane crashed just outside Smolensk, Russia, killing Polish president Lech Kaczynski. While the often controversial president’s death was a tremendous loss to Poland, it was far from the only one. Also among those killed were four undersecretaries of state (Mariusz Handzlik, Andrzej Kremer, Tomasz Merta, [...]

Monumental Type

In 1980, Toronto’s Polish community—and the general public—got more than it bargained for. Six years previous, the Canadian Polish Congress held a meeting where, among other things, a decision was made to erect a monument in Beaty Boulevard Park (1575 King Street West) to the thousands who died at Katyń forest as part of the [...]