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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Lillian M. Shaw Fund

Miss Shaw enjoyed a career as a successful life underwriter with Canada Life which career started in June of 1936. Lillian had a genuine interest in people and helping with their problems.

Upon her death the Hamilton Community Foundation established a fund in her name with proceeds received from her estate. The purpose of this fund is to support the work similar to that being carried out by the Canadian Mental Health Association with particular reference to the support of research or treatment in the interests of frightened or mentally disturbed children.