business, businessman, T. W. L. (Billy) Prowse, who would be another clay target shooter to serve his province as Lieutenant-Governor, Judge H. L. (Hal) Palmer, and a young Charlottetown barber, Oliver S. (Ollie) Harper. Three men from the Milton area, north of the city, were also among those first skeet shooting members: Ambrose Coles, his brother Roy, and friend Percy Hooper. These men, plus a few others, formed the Charlottetown Skeet Club, and it marked the first time that a nationally accepted clay target game would come to the Island. The Club elected George Hardy, President, Harry Tidmarsh, Vice-President, and Hal Palmer as the Secretary/Treasurer.

Now that they were organized, the new gun club faced three major items: equipment, facilities, and location. Brief discussions with other Maritime skeet Clubs, relative to trap equipment, led to the ordering through Rogers Hardware Ltd. of a new set of Remington "Wonder' traps, the very latest in target throwers, that cost $95.00 each. Included with the traps was the 'singlever' pull, for manual release.

The facilities required for the skeet field were three small buildings, and in the interest of austerity, the members decided to build them. They worked for the next couple of weekends at the mill of Roy Coles, located at the northern end of the lower Malpeque road in Milton. They built the high house with an extra slope on the lower back half to store targets, a larger-than-normal low house so it could include a relief-giving two holer, and a small pull house to accommodate the release lever equipment.

Coincidence prevailed in the selection of a shooting site for the new Charlottetown Skeet Club. Back in 1909 the Newstead Gun Club had started its existence at John Morris' farm in Winsloe, and now, the new Club would begin activities close to the original site. Years ago the Club was very portable, but in 1936 they would require a more permanent installation. With the co-operation of some friends,

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