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Sunpoke Hunting Retriever Club
September 13-18, 1999
Sunpoke
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The National Retriever Club of Canada
The Sunpoke Hunting Retriever Club was formed in 1984 by a handful of hunters and retriever enthusiasts who wanted to train their own gun dogs and promote the use of dogs as a conservation tool for hunting. Since it's inception, the club has grown to become one of the largest retriever clubs in Eastern Canada and has worked hard in the education and promotion of retrievers by organizing training classes and field days and by participating in demonstrations in sport and recreation shows. The club members were interested in testing the ability of their retrievers and therefore began hosting Licensed Hunt Tests and Field Trials.

The Sunpoke Hunting Retriever Club will host the 1999 National Retriever Championship between September 13 to 18, 1999 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The Sunpoke club intends to make this Championship a memorable maritime event for all competitors and guests.

LOCATION

Fredericton as the host city has much to offer in the way of entertainment and participants shall find that we can provide them with anything that they need.

The Airport is only minutes from the city center and there is ample hotel and camping accomodations.

The proposed Headquarters will be the Howard Johnson Motel situated on the Trans Canada Highway offering participants with excellent services including an indoor pool, indoor tennis, a golf driving range with practice greens.

The Headquarters will be within 30 minutes of driving time from all Trial Grounds. The majority of the trial will be held in Ripples, New Brunswick on reclaimed mining areas and the hundred of ponds created as a result of strip mining in the area. Additional grounds will be accessed in Jemseg, New Brunswick adjacentt the Saint John River. This area consists of large farm fields and beautiful marshes.

WEATHER

In this region of New Brunswick, you can expect average daytime temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees Celsius with average evening temperatures of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius. The normal weekly rainfall for this time of year is 10 to 20 millimeters with winds usually out of the Southwest at about 15 km/hr.

ENTERTAINMENT

The plans are well underway to provide participants with a wide range of evening events as has been provided in past National Championships but we plan to add our own brand of maritime hospitality. Entertainment and fun activities are also being planned for the families of participants.

PRETRIAL TRAINING GROUNDS

Sites shall be selected and prepared for those people wishing to train prior to the event on grounds similar to those that will be used at the event. Pretrial training areas will be posted on Sunday September 5, 1999.

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