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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