prestigious and dedicated organization that commanded a great deal of interest. For the outdoorman in Charlottetown there were still many alternatives, but there were now very few left to convey the opportunities and pleasures that were available in the field of clay target shooting.

In 1924 Frank Heartz had been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island and was holding office at Edgewater, his stately home on water street. Following the war, Government House, in Victoria Park, had been converted to a convalescent home by adding a 200-bed annex, and it would be during the Heartz term of office that the former home of the Lieutenant-Governor of the province would be returned to its original intent.

By the late twenties, skeet shooting was solidly

established throughout North America and had already made its way into the exclusive trap clubs of Europe. The shooting games of trap and skeet complemented one another, yet were different enough to develop their own dedicated following. Long established trap clubs found that adding a skeet field gave their clubs a new excitement and diversity, while clubs that had been initiated in skeet simply added a trap field in the centre of their layout to give an added dimension. It was simple to place a low profile trap house between the skeet houses and establish the five required shooting stations in the proximity of skeet station four. The games were great for each other, and began a new regeneration for clay target shooting.

On February 27th, 1928, the hero of the Heartz Trophy, Major Bill Weeks, passed away in Saint John, New Brunswick. Later that same year his son Ernest, who had followed his father's enthusiasm toward the military ona full-career basis, desired to make use of the attractive trophy that had long been in his family's possession. He took the trophy to Birk's, in Toronto, and had the engraving and motif altered to suit anew function. He officially presented it to

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