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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Community Health Education and Research Fund

The Community Health Education and Research Fund was established by the Board of Directors of the Hamilton Community Foundation by incorporating the existing McGregor Clinic Fund and two new funds given to the Hamilton Community Foundation in 1996 -The Dorothy and Frank Bliss Fund and The Mary S. Phin and James P. Phin Respiratory Diseases Research Fund.

All of these donors were committed to building a community that is a healthy place for all to live, learn and work.