Wiktor (Victor) Szyrynski (1913-2007), professor of psychiatry and psychology, member of the Polish Resistance Movement, officer in the Polish and Canadian armies, Polish activist, scoutmaster. During the war he served as a military doctor in the Sanitary Battalion of the 6th Lvov Infantry Division in Africa and the Middle East, and was a lecturer in Polish Studies at the Polish Institute in Beirut. He also did postgraduate studies at the University of London (in Poland he graduated from the University of Warsaw). He obtained his PhD in psychology from the University of Ottawa and then specialised in neurology and psychotherapy. He worked at the University of Ottawa as professor of psychophysiology and psychiatry. He wrote more than 70 scientific articles in the fields of neurology, psychiatry, education and mental health and gave more than 500 lectures in Canada and abroad. Despite his many professional responsibilities, he was an active Polish activist, always most faithful to the Scouts. He died in Ottawa, and was laid to rest in the new cemetery in Vilnius, Ontario.