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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Elsie M. Husband Fund

Elsie Mona Madeline Husband lived in Hamilton all her life and for the last sixty years of her life on Hess Street South in a house designed by her architect husband, Lester. The daughter of a County Court judge, Mrs. Husband was a lifelong member of the Church of The Ascension and interested in the Royal Botanical Gardens and the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

She was also a generous contributor to the Hamilton Foundation over many years.

Excerpt from 1987-1988 Annual Report