military service. He would return from the Boer War, 
     
     with commission, to enter private practice, and 
     
     eventually to play a leading role in re-establishing 
     
     trapshooting in Charlottetown. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Three of the men who had helped lead the 
     
     Belvidere Gun Club through its decade of activity 
     
     would, early in the twentieth century, establish 
     
     themselves in local history books through the world 
     
     of politics. Arthur Peters, whose home on Admiral 
     
     Street had provided the site of many Saturday 
     
     afternoon competitions, became Premier of the Province 
     
     in 1901, and remained in that position until his death 
     
     in 1908, when another Belvidere shotgunner, Francis 
     
     Longworth Haszard, succeeded him as premier. Louis 
     
     Henry Davies, the only shotgunner in the old Club's 
     
     history to have a perfect day at the traps, who had 
     
     become the Canadian Government's Minister of Marine 
     
     and Fisheries in 1896, and was shortly thereafter made 
     
     a judge of the Supreme Court, was to receive his 
     
     greatest glory after the turn of the century when he 
     
     was bestowed knighthood by then Prime Minister, Rt. 
     
     Hon. Sir Wilfred Laurier. One final tribute to this 
     
     great Canadian would be paid post humously, in 1979, 
     
     when the elaborate new courthouse, constructed on the 
     
     Charlottetown Waterfront, would be named The Sir Louis 
     
     Henry Davies Law Courts. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Early in the Twentieth Century change was 
     
     rampant. In 1902, Marconi sent his first wireless 
     
     message from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. A short time 
     
     later 'Plinky' Toepperwein set a women's 16 yard trap 
     
     record, breaking 967 of 1000 clay targets at the St. 
     
     Louis World's Fair. In 1906, Alberta and Saskatchewan 
     
     became Canadian provinces by joining Confederation. 
     
     On Prince Edward Island a few motor vehicles began to 
     
     make an appearance, leading to a public outcry and 
     
     Provincial law, in 1908, prohibiting their use on any 
     
     public street or highway. 
     
    
   
   
    
     About this time an enterprising businessman in 
     
     Hamilton, Ontario, saw an opportunity to establish 
     
    
   
   
    
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