Wanda Maria Stachiewicz (1895 - 1995), graduate of the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów and the Paris Sorbonne in the study of the history of civilisation. Wife of General Waclaw Stachiewicz, during World War II she made her way to England, from where she reached Canada in 1940. In Montreal, she obtained a position at the International Labour Office (Office of the League of Nations). She took an active part in the social work of Polish institutions. She co-founded the Association of Polish War Refugees and organised a series of lectures on Polish culture at McGill University. In recognition of her contributions, the General Assembly of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada in 1984 named the library she founded and was its long-time director: the Wanda Stachiewicz Polish Library. She died in Montreal. She is laid to rest in the cemetery in St. Adele, Quebec.