would be the return of trapshooting...not the single station, simple form, that former clay target shooters refused to change, but the long established clay target game that had been withheld from these shores for seventy years.

The Charlottetown Skeet Club's annual meeting was held on February 18th, 1950, in Ralph Jenkins' office at the Royal Packing Company building located in the centre of ‘dizzy block' (current site of the Confederation Court Mall) and, apart from the normal business, the main concern was what to do about relocation. There were those who advocated the Club purchase a property and establish a permanent skeet field, and this was the route being discussed when Wallace Rodd offered a portion of his property at Winsloe...The Club would be welcomed to use it fora nominal annual fee, like $1.00. He had the room, the price was certainly right, and the members lost no time in accepting it. Clay target shooting was going back to Winsloe, and to within a few hundred yards of both Newstead, and the Skeet Club established in 1936. The meeting would also elect Dr. Gil Houston as the Club's President, and it was obvious that his first job would be to engineer the move from Squaw Point.

In 1950, the clay target itself would have an added innovation. Since George Ligowski developed it, in 1880, the clay pigeon had remained black, the ideal color, supposedly, to pick out against the sky, and for seventy years it had been accepted. Now, an idea would give it a new image--a color--a yellow top that would add 50% to its pick-up factor against a dark background. It was an interesting concept, but one that was not accepted immediately, and it would be Many years before it would come to Prince Edward Island.

With the Spring of 1950 came the Charlottetown Skeet Club's move from Tea Hill to Winsloe, a transition that would give the Club a new lease on life, and establish it as a great place for a

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