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| Certificate of a notary public regarding a deed of Conveyance for Pasture Lots in the Royalty of Charlottetown - Francis Cecil Armitage, trustee of the will of Alexander Beazeley, to Belvedere Golf Club, 1907 |
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| By-laws of the Charlottetown Golf Club |
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| Organized golf began on Prince Edward Island with the first official meeting of the Charlottetown Golf Club on 24 October, 1902. With no appropriate facilities for play, the priority of the newly established club was to find a suitable location close to Charlottetown on which to create the Island's first nine-hole golf course. An enterprising group of club members soon managed to secure the use of a private expanse of land known as the Belvidere Woods, which they at first leased (1903) and later purchased (1907), offering the Charlottetown Golf Club use of 110 acres of the property for an annual rent of $250. In these early years, the Charlottetown Golf Links, which became known officially as the Belvedere Links in 1923, was modest by the standards of today. Created from rough pasture land, the course had many natural hazards on account of the springs and marshes that covered the area. In the absence of heavy machinery to maintain the course, cattle and sheep were used to mow the fairway grass until horse-drawn mechanization gradually took over in the 1920s. | | Next>>> | | Previous<<< |
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