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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