Target shooting was first popular in English-speaking countries, notably England and the United States, as well as Ireland and South Africa. Target shooting was on the program of the very first Canada Winter Games in 1967 in Quebec City. It appeared again in the 1973 Summer Games (New Westminster-Burnaby, BC) and 1977 Canada Summer Games (St. John’s, NF) but then fell off the program until the 1991 Canada Winter Games in PEI.