A grant to McMaster University’s Let’s Talk Science! partnership supported students from at four Hamilton elementary schools to care for and hatch Atlantic salmon eggs in their classrooms over the winter, and then to re-introduce the fish into the Lake Ontario watershed.  Once a keystone species, these fish were eradicated from the lake in the late 1800s.  This program enables children to learn about the vital role they can play in protecting the environment.

 

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Marjorie L. Allan Fund

For about thirty years, Marjorie Lillian Allan was the friend of thousands of students and their teachers as secretary at Delta Collegiate, a position previously held by her sister, Dorothy (Broadbent). Active in volunteer work, she was a member of the Women's Missionary Society of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church and, with her sister, devoted many hours to visiting patients at St. Peter's Hospital.

Excerpt from 1986-1987 Annual Report