spend more time with my wife and two small daughters (perhaps contributing to the arrival of a son a year later), a rekindled interest in the game of golf and, although I enjoyed shooting and the outdoors, simply electing to leave the old Ithaca smokepipe on the rack until hunting season rolled around.

By 1963 the feeling generally prevailed that the Gun Club had bottomed-out, and the only way to go was up. They had a good nucleus of members, combining some veteran clay target shooters with some new ones including Traders Finance Company Manager Larry Campbell, newcomer Dan Dayan, and Harley Ings of Mount Herbert who was serving as police officer for the Village of Parkdale. President Lea Windsor, again determined to get the Club rolling, called the annual meeting on February 7th at the offices of Traders Finance on Kent Street, and, as an added attraction, invited Charles Bartlett of the Provincial Fish & Wildlife Division to speak. The meeting was well attended and a number of motions passed including one by Gus Gallant, seconded by Walter Carver, that a ‘capon-shoot' be held, and the profits be given to the two members with the highest average for the year so they could represent the Island at the Maritime Championships. It was wasted effort because the shoot was never held, and no one ever attended the championships. It was also agreed, perhaps to accommodate Dan Dayan, that anyone who was a resident of the Island for six months could participate in the Island shoot. Officers elected were Walter Carver, President; Bill Morrell, Vice-President; and Harley Ings, Secretary/Treasurer. Only two Directors were elected, Dan Dayan as Field Captain, and Wallace Douglas in charge of membership.

An effort was made during this period to introduce a more social atmosphere into the Club by adding bar facilities, arguing that it would increase both the membership and income, but most members had developed and retained a pride that they had been

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