Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
There is a pink granite tombstone in Toronto’s Prospect Cemetery, with four names inscribed: Pauline Chorna, Annie Hrynchak, Anna Baran, and Nellie Handiak, underneath the word “Friends.” The four women buried there are no kin to each other, and they died decades apart.
Yet they all four carried out a pledge to spend eternity together after death. What the four friends had in common were that they were all born in the first decade of the 20th century, and all had immigrated to Canada from the Carpathian Mountains.The Carpatho-Russian identity is one that is deeply complex and divided along religious, national and political lines, according to…
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