Bogdan Zaborski (1901-1985), a world-famous geographer and geomorphologist, professor at the University of Warsaw, during the war an employee at the Ministry of Information and Documentation of the Polish Government in Exile in London, firmly rejected the communist authorities' proposal that he return to Poland and take up the chair of geography at the University of Warsaw. He chose to emigrate and went to Canada. In Montreal, he taught at McGill University, Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, the Universities of Ottawa and Carleton and the University of Alberta in Edmonton. With seven Canadian scientists, he founded the Canadian Association of Geographers. He is the author of many books and publications, including Atlas of the Landscapes and Settlements of Eastern Canada. Concordia University in Montreal, to honour a Polish professor, founded the Bogdan Zaborski Medal, which is presented annually to the best geography graduate. The University of Ottawa, meanwhile, founded the Zaborski-Castonguay Scholarship. He died in Ottawa and was buried in Notre-Dame Cemetery (Ontario).