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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Annie S. Nieman Fund

Annie Stott Nieman and her family came to Canada from England after the First World War. They were a musical family, singers and pianists. Nan Stott worked in various offices around town, latterly as a switchboard operator at CHML Radio.
The wartime effort of the 1940's inspired her to canvass tirelessly, and successfully, for the Victory Bond campaign. Her husband Sam, worked for the local newspaper and enjoyed a reputation as a basketball star.

Excerpt from 1989-1990 Annual Report