From the National Archives of Canada

M and R 121-'57. Ordered that, under the authority of the Crown Lands Act, the administration, management and control of five pieces of Crown land situate at Elliston in the District of Trinity North and comprising 87.83 acres as described in the Schedule hereto, be transferred to Her Majesty the Queen in the right of Canada for use by the Department of National Defence subject to the following conditions:

• All minerals, quarry materials, coal, natural gas, oil and salt on in and under the said lands to be reserved to Her Majesty in the right of Newfoundland;
  
  
• The said lands to be used at all times by the Department of National Defence in connection with the mid-Canada lines; and if, and as soon as, the said lands are no longer used for the purpose mentioned in (b) above, the administration, control and management thereof shall thereupon be assumed by Her Majesty in the right of Newfoundland.
  
  
• All that piece or parcel of land situate and being near Elliston in the District of Trinity North abutted and bounded as follows: beginning at a point in the westerly limit of the highway (sixty-six feet wide) extending from Elliston to Elliston Railway Station, the said point being two hundred and sixty-five feet as measured along the said westerly limit of the highway in a southerly direction from the point of intersection of the said westerly limit and the centre line of the access road leading in general northwesterly direction through the land herein described to an area occupied by the Department of National Defence and called Area B, Main Site; thence running in a northeasterly direction along the said westerly limit of the highway six hundred and ninety feet; thence turning and running by Crown Land north thirty-seven degrees five minutes west one thousand four hundred and thirty-nine feet; thence south forty-two degrees forty minutes west one thousand six hundred feet; thence south seventy degrees twenty-five minutes east one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine feet more or less to the point of beginning and containing an area of forty acres and seventy-two hundredths of an acre more or less, all bearings being referred to the true meridian.
  
  
• Also all that other piece or parcel of land known as Area B, Main Site, adjoining the area hereinbefore described and abutted and bounded as follows: beginning at the most westerly angle of the area hereinbefore described; thence running by Crown Land north forty-seven degrees twenty minutes west one thousand two hundred feet; thence north forty-two degrees forty minutes east one thousand six hundred feet; thence south forty-seven degrees twenty minutes east one thousand two hundred feet more or less to the northernmost angle of the land hereinbefore described; thence by the said land hereinbefore described south forty-two degrees forty minutes west one thousand six hundred feet more or less to the point of beginning and containing an area of forty-four acres and eight hundredths of an acre more or less; all bearings being referred to the true meridian.
  
  
• Also all that other piece or parcel of land adjoining the north-eastern boundary of Area B, Main Site hereinbefore described and abutted and bounded as follows: beginning at a point in the said northeastern boundary of Area B, Main Site distant four hundred and five feet and seven-tenths of a foot on a bearing of north forty-seven degrees twenty minutes west from the easternmost angle of the said Area B, Main Site; thence running by Crown Lands north thirty degrees twenty minutes east three hundred and nine feet and five-tenths of a foot; thence north fifty-nine degrees forty minutes west forty feet; thence south thirty degrees twenty minutes west three hundred feet and eight-tenths of a foot more or less to the aforesaid northeastern boundary of Area B, Main Site hereinbefore mentioned; thence along the said northeastern boundary south forty-seven degrees twenty minutes east forty feet and nine-tenths of a foot more or less to the point of beginning and containing an area of twenty-eight hundredths of an acre more or less; all bearings being referred to the true meridan.
  
  
• Also all that other piece or parcel of land abutted and bounded as follows: beginning at a point distance one thousand three hundred and fifty-five feet on a bearing of north thirty-seven degrees east from the northernmost angle of Area B, Main Site hereinbefore described; thence running by land occupied by Caleb Hobbs north twenty-seven degrees six minutes west three hundred and fifteen feet; thence by land occupied by the said Caleb Hobbs and by the southerly limit of a road north sixty-two degrees fifty-four minutes east three hundred and fifty feet; thence by lands occupied by the said Caleb Hobbs south twenty-seven degrees six minutes east three hundred and fifteen feet; thence south sixty-two degrees fifty-four minutes west three hundred and fifty feet more or less to the point of beginning and containing an area of two acres and fifty-three hundredths of an acre more or less; all bearings being referred to the true meridian.
  
  
• All that piece or parcel of land situate and being at Elliston in the District of Trinity South abutted and bounded as follows: beginning at a point in the easterly limit of the main road through Elliston and marked by an iron pin set in the ground in the boundary of land occupied by Wilson Trask; thence running by the said land occupied by Wilson Trask and by land occupied by Amaziah Oldford and by land occupied by Mrs. Charles Trask north thirty-one degrees fourteen minutes east two hundred and thirty-one feet; thence north fifty-eight degrees fifty-six minutes west forty feet; thence by lands occupied by the aforesaid Mrs. Charles Trask, Amaziah Oldford and Wilson Trask south thirty-one degrees fourteen minutes west two hundred and forty-eight feet and five-tenths of a foot more or less to the aforesaid easterly limit of the main road through Elliston; thence along the said easterly limit in an easterly direction forty-three feet and five-tenths of a foot more or less to the point of beginning and containing an area of twenty-two hundredths of an acre more or less; all bearings being referred to the true meridian.
  
  

(signed) JC Channing
Clerk of the Executive Council