the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, to be awarded annually for a level of skill in musketry. The 'Heartz Trophy' became a noted and prized possession in Canadian military shooting competition, and sits today, over half a century later, in a glass case at the officers Mess of Vimy Barracks, Canadian Forces Base, Kingston, Ontario. Major General Ernest G. (Bunny) Weeks is now retired and living in Charlottetown.

Perhaps, just perhaps, at some future date this award may come to lose some significance in the military, and, with knowledge of its heritage on the clay target fields of Prince Edward Island, co- Operative efforts may return it to its origin. Were this ever to happen, and it be re-instated into Island competition, it would create a valuable heritage link between today's enthusiastic trap and skeet shooters, and those pioneers who started it all many years ago.

By the early thirties the exploits of the Belvidere and Newstead Gun Clubs were only memories to those remaining. There were, of course, the newspaper clippings, pictures, guns, and the prized N.G.Cc. sterling silver spoons. The old traps were undoubtedly rusting away in someone's garage or barn, where they may even be to this day. Of all the children of those interesting shooters who first dusted clay targets, only two young mem would carry on the traditions their fathers had established two decades before. Robert E. (Bob) Hyndman and G. G. K. (Bus) Peake would become active when serious clay target shooting again returned to the Charlottetown area.

In February of 1931, Frank Heartz' large home fell victim to a tragic fire. Edgewater was levelled, in a raging snowstorm, and with it went untold heritage items associated with the Newstead Gun Club. Guns, silverware--everything was lost. The only visible evidence of this beautiful estate that remains today is the large circular driveway that encompasses

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