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Safari Club International was founded by C.J. McElroy and fellow hunters in 1972. Early chapters were founded in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Arizona, and Mississippi. McElroy was an accomplished hunter, hunting on six continents and in nearly 50 countries with over 200 record-book specimens, but he was forced to resign in 1988.
The Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, often referred to as Ottawa Hunt or the Hunt Club, is a private golf and curling club in Canada, located in Ottawa, Ontario.Founded 117 years ago in 1908 as a hunting club, it has hosted many world-class professional and amateur golf tournaments, along with many high-profile Canadian curling events.
Camp-Fire Club was instrumental in many of the biggest environmental efforts of the 19th and 20th centuries including: launching the American Bison Society and saving the American Bison in 1905, [7] passing the Fur Seal Preservation Act in 1909, [7] the founding of Glacier National Park in 1910, [7] the passing of the Plumage Bill in 1910, [7 ...
The Shikar Club [note 1] is an international sporting club founded in London in 1909 by Old Boys of Eton and Rugby to champion the cause of hunting and in particular big game hunting. Its founding members included Frederick Courtney Selous , P.B. van der Byl and Charles Edward Radclyffe.
The Toronto Hunt Club had acquired its original site in Scarborough in 1895, but during the ensuing decades, it was used increasingly as a golf course instead of for fox hunting. [1] During the early 1930s, the hunting and golfing sections of the club were formally divided, with the hunting section becoming a separate entity known as the ...
An outfitter is a shop or person that sells specialized clothes (an outfit is a set of clothing [1]). More specifically, it is a company or individual who provides or deals in equipment and supplies for the pursuit of certain activities.
Hunt Club is located just north of the Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport and to the east of the Rideau River. The Hunt Club Community Organization defines the boundaries as the Rideau River to the west, the Airport Parkway to the east, the CN Albion line and Via Rail Beachburg Subdivision to the north, and Hunt Club Road to the ...
The Valley Hunt Club is a private social club and booster organization located in Pasadena, California, that is most noted for starting the Tournament of Roses Parade in 1890. Its members were former residents of the East and Midwest eager to showcase their new home's mild winter weather.