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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Flora Frid Fund

Isabella Flora Frid was the daughter of a country doctor and sister of the founders of the McGregor Clinic. She was renowned for her handcrafted Christmas crackers and for her magnificent gardens in Waterdown. A charter member and former President of the Garden Club in Hamilton, Mrs. Frid enjoyed its activities up to her death in her ninety-eighth year. She graduated from New York's Roosevelt Hospital and nursed overseas during the First World War.

The widow of H.P. Frid of Frid Construction, she was Hamilton Foundation Board member in the 1960s.

Excerpt from 1987-1988 Annual Report