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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Ethel H. Prouse

Ethel Harriett Prouse was the youngest of ten children in the Bluhm family of Sullivan Township (in Owen Sound area). She worked for Bell Telephone all her life, as did several of her relatives.
Ethel lived to the age of 94, surviving her husband, William Russell Prouse, by many years. As there were no children, Mrs. Prouse divided the residue of her estate equally among four charities, including the Foundation.

Excerpt from 1994-1995 Annual Report