DAWSON, WADE & CO. LIMITED GENERAL CONTRACTORS 775 CLARK DRIVE VANCOUVER, B.C. HAYES MANUFACTURING COS END: Manufacturers LOGGING TRUCKS and TRAILERS 4 to 30 Tons 295 West 2nd Avenue Vancouver, B.C. ‘“CLOVERLEAF”’ SEA FOODS e British Columbia Packers, Limited e Head Office: Ft. Campbell Avenue VANCOUVER, B.C. THE YORKSHIRE & PACIFIC SECURITIES LIMITED Head Office, Huddersfield, England _ H. W. Dyson, President F. H. Wright, G. Peter Kaye, Vice-Presidents Yorkshire Building 525 Seymour St. Vancouver, Canada Slount Pleasant Gnodertaking Co. Ltd. Kingsway at Eleventh Avenue FA irmont 0058 R. F. HARRISON Lady in Attendance W. E. REYNOLDS between 1933 and 1936, but he was only able to attend at Ottawa the first year. However, he acquitted himself creditably among the country’s finest rifle shots on that occasion and he entered his first big revolver compett- tion. He amazed everyone, including him- self, by winning the Open Canadian Re- volver Championship. The North Vancou- ver Police were absorbed by the Provincial Police in 1934 and Constable Young was assigned to an interior detachment. But his prowess as a marksman earmarked him for further public service and it wasn’t long before he was given the task of organizing systematic revolver practice for the whole Force. He patterned his programme after that of the Los Angeles Police, long-time leaders among the continent’s skilled shots. Travelling from division to division, Young laid the groundwork for an intense interest in revolver shooting and it was natural that many who had been prepared for perfunctory practice became enthused with the possibilities of a new hobby. After preliminary instruction, every man on the Force had to fire the Camp Perry police course twice a year. The course calls for ten deliberate shots, ten shots timed and ten shots rapid, at twenty-five yards, with a service arm. In the timed-fire stage each string of five shots is fired within twenty seconds and in the rapid-fire each five-shot string must leave the gun within ten seconds. Those who qualified as marksmen—and there were one hundred and thirty-five the first year—had to score 190 out of a possible 300. By the second year 287 had won the coveted badge—and thirteen of them qualified with scores of 275 or better! REVOLVER ENTHUSIASTS Such was the enthusiasm of the men for revolver shooting as a sport that arrange- ments were completed whereby the men, in addition to their annual issue of ammunition, were enabled to secure additional revolver loads at cost from the Force, with the result that the shooting ability of the Force reached new heights of marksmanship. Then the war and its attendant economies in the national interest brought a curtailment. But the work had been done. These police revolver enthusiasts were be- Page Ninety-four coming crack marksmen and naturally they were looking for competition. Here and there they were assisting in the formation of clubs. Within a year or so the four or five clubs had increased in number to over twenty. From - fourteen to sixteen clubs have entered recent annual shoots of the B. C. Revolver League, indicative of the B. C. Indoor Championship. For six years now a British Columbia Police revolver team has held the B. C. Open Team Championship and for four years the Indoor Championship. Each midsummer the men have annexed their fair share of medals and trophies across the United States border. In the 1938 Chief Constables’ Competition, sponsored by Dominion Marksmen, senior and tyro five-man teams took top provincial and Dominion honours. They repeated the tale next year, the tyros taking the Dominion Open. On this occasion one of the seniors took second place for high individual honours in the coast-to-coast event. While crack shots have crowded the firing line in competitive events, they have been drawn from a mass of good shooters and it — would be safe to say that the general average of skill in the British Coluntbia Police is higher than in any other Canadian police body! ARBUTUS SASH & DOOR CO. LIMITED MILLWORK OF DISTINCTION Head Office and Works: 2775 Arbutus St. Vancouver, B.C. GET OUR PRICES Phone BA yview 3551 MAINLAND TRANSFER CO. LTD. Cartage, Storage and Pool Car Service to Prairie Points. e PA cific 1311 94 W. Pender St. Vancouver, B.C. SHOULDER STRAP