supplied their own ammunition, and paid the Club 25 cents per competition to cover the cost of their targets.

The final spring shoot was held at Falconwood on April 28th, and unknown at the time, would be the last time clay target competition would be conducted in the area. Ernest Blanchard had been Superintendent and Chief Medical Officer of the Insane Asylum since 1879 and had complete control over the facility. Some pressure from provincial officials relative to the noise factor, (not only for the in- mates, but also the animals in the adjacent Government Stock Farm) caused Doctor Blanchard to diplomatically advise the Club at the next meeting that he was sorry, but was not prepared to offer Falconwood for any more competitions. Shotgunning would move away from the Belvidere area, where clay target shooting had its beginnings a few years previous.

The Belvidere Gun Club was active and going well. Some of ‘the members wanted to have some shooting competitions through the summer, or at least in the early fall prior to the annual influx of ducks and geese as they moved south on the Atlantic flyway, pausing on Island marshes and fields. But the Club executive, troubled with some of the concerns on rules through the winter, was satisfied to wait and let the new executive decide on activities, following the annual meeting scheduled for November.

During this summer, in the United States the Winchester Repeating Arms Company was pursuing a pro- gramme of acquiring some of their successful competition. This was evidenced by their purchase of the Whitney Arms Company, a firm established over 100 years before by Eli Whitney, who is in history books as the inventor of the revolutionary Cotton Gin. Whitney Arms manufactured many firearms and introduced standardization, and the changeability of parts into the industry, a system that would later be carried to

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