free them. Other than this obstacle the transition was effected in good time, and by mid June the Club was set up and ready to go at Squaw Point.

The Rifle Association was holding its competitions every second Saturday and it was necessary, to avoid conflictions, to reach a workable agreement whereby the Skeet Club would shoot on alternate weekends...An arrangement that worked well throughout the summer, and had an added value in that a number of the members of both clubs were trying each other's shooting sport on alternate weekends.

Since the end of the war, clay target shooting had come back to the Maritime Provinces in a big way. Many of the older trapshooting clubs had incorporated the new game of skeet, and in some cases it had become the dominating discipline. Clubs were very active in Dartmouth, Halifax, Truro, Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton, with smaller clubs in Kentville, Charlottetown, Amherst, St. George and Yarmouth. The three that had really gone into skeet shooting ina big way were the Halifax Gun Club, which was located about ten miles from the city on the St. Margaret's Bay Road, the Fredericton Gun Club, operating out of the neighboring town of Marysville, and the Moncton Gun Club situated beside the Petitcodiac River in Coverdale.

The Charlottetown Skeet Club membership grew to twenty during the two summers they shot on the Rifle Association property at Squaw Point. Among the new members were Harold and Ted Smith of Pownal; Highfield tourist cabin operator, Wallace Rodd; city businessmen George Carson and George Rogers; railwayman Henry Douglas; and T. M. (Tam) Gillies, a Swift Canadian Company livestock buyer who had recently moved to Charlottetown. Gillies, in particular, was an aggressive outdoorsman who lost no time in offering his energies, and would help give the Club a new momentum.

The Squaw Point skeet shooters were interested in

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