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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Catherine C.H. Murray Fund

Catherine Constance Hull Murray came to Dundas from England as a child at the turn of the century. Having experienced extreme poverty in her early years, she became a generous supporter of several local charities.

A graduate of the Hamilton General Hospital in 1930, she nursed in Britain and Belgium during the Second World War and later worked to help reintegrate service women into civilian life.

She was the widow of Dr. J . Kenneth Murray, a Hamilton surgeon.

Excerpt from 1987-1988 Annual Report