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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