challenge. They decided on prizes for the first three finishers with handicap. What the prizes were to be is not documented, but since there was no assessment on members, we might surmise they may have been donated merchandise items.

On November 7th, 1885, Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona), a Director of the newly formed Canadian Pacific Railway, drove the last spike to complete the first transcontinental rail line, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in Canada. Four days later the Belvidere Gun Club gathered at Falconwood to hold their first shoot of the new season...and to conduct their first-ever annual meeting. Nine members enjoyed the new handicap competition, shooting single targets, from a screened trap,at a 15-yard rise, with the following results:

E.S. BLANCHARDO 0010010100101 5-14 F.W. HYNDMAN 1101011011000011 9-16 D.C. CHALMERS 0000101000 2-11 F.H. ARNAUD 01000000000 1-11 E.H. HAVILAND 01011010101 6-11 W.C. HOBKIRK 10001111111di11414141 ~= °&42413-16 F.L. HASZARD 011000011100 5-12 L.H. DAVIES 110111001010 7-12 G. MACLEOD 0000001000 1-10

David Chalmers, a former member, was home on a visit from Amherst, and they allowed him 11 targets. Bill Hobkirk, confined to a single shot, still won the competition with 13 of 16.

Two days later, on November 13th, the Charlottetown Daily Examiner had a small report on the competition which, to our best investigation, just may have been the first newspaper report, small as it was, of a clay target event in Eastern Canada. It reads as follows; "At a meeting of the Belvidere Gun Club held yesterday, the first prize was captured by L. H. Davies, who succeeded in shooting every bird in the handicap match." Somewhere there was anerror. Louis

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