two residences on the water side of West Street, at the foot of Grafton.

One year later the St. Croix Gun Club in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, introduced skeet shooting to the Maritimes, leading, in 1934, to the trap association changing its name to the Maritme Trap and Skeet Association. Their first skeet championships were held in Fredericton in September 1935, and a Mr. H. L. Richards won the initial title breaking 44 of 50 clay targets.

There was an indication, never verified, that some clay target shooting was done in the early 1930's at Crowlands, the old home, and stables, built by Edward Bayfield on the North River Road, and a popular headquarters for the P.E.I. Lighthorse Regiment and Recreation Club. The home is now known as the Duvar Apartments, and the activities of the day are still well recalled by a few living residents who suggest that the shooting would have been strictly for fun, with no organization or competition.

Eardley Hyndman passed away early in 1936, a few short months before the first steps would be taken to bring organized clay pigeon shooting back to the Charlottetown area. The reintroduction of the sport did not happen in the form that the Newstead or Belvidere shooters had enjoyed, or in the long established and organized game of regular trapshooting...It came as the new clay pigeon game, the game that sportsmen everywhere were reading about in their outdoor magazines, the exciting game of Skeet Shooting.

George Hardy, a 37 year old native of Montreal, had enjoyed skeet shooting in his hometown for a number of years, and had recently moved to Charlottetown as Manager of the Prince Edward Island Trust Company, an agency of Montreal Trust, located in the annex of the Royal Bank building on the current site of the Co-op Super Market, on Richmond Street.

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