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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