CHAPTER 8 
     
     NORTH RIVER ROAD 
     
    
   
   
    
     By the Summer of 1946, the terrors and tragic 
     
     memories of World War II had moved almost one year 
     
     into history, and in Charlottetown, post-war energy 
     
     was evident in every walk of life. Clay target 
     
     shooting had almost been forgotten, as the inactive 
     
     seven-year span of wartime all but obliterated not 
     
     only the enthusiasm of the former members of the 
     
     Charlottetown Skeet Club, but also much of their 
     
     potential to re-organize. George Hardy, the catalyst 
     
     that brought skeet shooting to the Island was gone, 
     
     and age and war had taken its toll on many other 
     
     former members. If interest in organized clay pigeon 
     
     shooting was to be renewed, it was evident that a new 
     
     vitality was necessary. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The incentive to regroup would come in June when 
     
     Ollie Harper, who had been an active member of the 
     
     Club before the war, was cutting the hair of his good 
     
     friend and Charlottetown furrier, Arthur G. Hogan, at 
     
     his Queen Street Barber Shop. They were both active 
     
     members of the Charlottetown Kennel Club, and, apart 
     
     from this, had a common devotion to smoothbore 
     
     shooting. The discussion, usually concerning dogs, 
     
     guns, or upland birds, this time centered around clay 
     
     target shooting, and the possibility of getting the 
     
     Old club going again. They considered the old 
     
     buildings were still sitting dormant at the former 
     
     Winsloe shooting site, but were not sure where the 
     
     traps might be. They did agree then and there to make 
     
     an effort to seek out whatever was left of the 
     
     Charlottetown Skeet Club, and put it together in a new 
     
     venture. 
     
    
   
   
    
     About this time another young City resident, who 
     
     had recently returned home from serving his country 
     
     and entered into business with his father, was 
     
     creating a clay target enthusiasm of his own. Sidney 
     
     E. Green had been casually shooting for some time, 
     
    
   
   
    
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