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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Donald H. Henderson Fund

After remembering several family members, friends and two hospitals in his Will, Donald Henderson generously left the residue of his estate to the Foundation for the needs of the Hamilton community.

A long time Hamilton resident (and brother of prominent community leader Nora Frances Henderson for whom one of the civic hospitals was named), Don Henderson was a businessman with a great interest in politics, finance and history. He was President and subsequently Vice-Chairman of Steetley Industries Limited until his retirement in 1974, and his business acumen was highly regarded by several other corporations on whose boards he also served. He and his late wife Dot were avid golfers and curlers.

Excerpt from 1992-1993 Annual Report