Jadwiga Jurkszus-Tomaszewska (1918-1996), Polish writer, reporter and literary critic. She graduated from a secondary school in Nowogródek, then studied Polish philology at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. She later took part in clandestine journalism classes at Warsaw University. She collaborated with the underground press and was a liaison officer in the ranks of the Home Army, using the pseudonyms Wiśka, Ada, 909. She took part in the Warsaw Uprising. After its fall, in Belgium, she completed her studies in journalism at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, graduating with a Licence en Journalism. In 1949, she left for Canada, where she taught Polish literature at the University of Ottawa. Two years later, she defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Montreal and, following her defence, moved to Toronto, where she worked professionally for the Ministry of Immigration and Employment for twenty-five years. She has written and co-authored numerous reportages and literary texts in the Polish press and five books, including Chronicles of Fifty Years. Cultural Life of Polish Emigration in Canada (1995).