The next shoot, combined with the first major meeting of the Club since its inception, was scheduled for Falconwood on November 15. A good group of members arrived to gun down a few targets and take in the meeting.

They shot at 7 targets and once again, as he had in every shoot he had participated in to date, Bill Hobkirk showed the way, breaking 6. Worden and Haszard had 5, Blanchard 3, and David Chalmers and a guest, L.H. Davies, hit 2. George MacLeod had only one--his first target.

The meeting that followed at Falconwood was brief, but two items of significance were discussed. Firstly, it was proposed by Dr. Blanchard that the club should have a name. He suggested that since they had participated from the beginning, and for most of the year, in the Belvidere Wood, that the club be called "The Belvidere Gun Club." His motion was seconded by Bill Hobkirk, voted on, and the new clay target club in Charlottetown had an official name.

In the next bit of business, the guest of the day, introduced by Francis Haszard, was proposed as a member, the first potential member since the Club's organization. Thirty-nine year old City Barrister Iouis Henry Davies, a Prince Edward Island member of the Parliament of Canada, was voted into the Belvidere Gun Club.

A touch of irony prevailed relative to the Club's new name. The members were now enjoying their competitions at Falconwood and, although it was in close proximity to both the Insane Asylum and the Provincial Stock Farm, it did not interfere. Dr. Ernest Blanchard, who had been appointed Superinten- dent in 1879, certainly welcomed them. It was rather advantageous to shoot in close proximity to both a warm house and a good stable, especially in the winter, and the Club would soon begin to move from one home to another for their competitions. Unknown to

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