Cut Throat Island, Labrador

National Archives of Canada


Certified to be a True Copy of a Minute of a Meeting of the Committee of the Executive Council of Newfoundland approved by His Honour the Lieutenant Governor on 5th June, 1959.

M and R 159-'58. Ordered that, under authority of the Crown Lands Act, the administration, management and control of the surface rights of 15.18 acres of Crown Land situate at Cut Throat Island in the District of Labrador South, as described in the Schedule hereto, be transferred to Her Majesty in the right of Canada for use in connection with the USAF Gap Filler Unit:

SCHEDULE

Beginning at Monument 6 at the northwest angle of a lot of 22.69 acres at Cut Throat Island occupied in connection with the Mid-Canada Line, thence running by Crown Lands south forty-four degrees forty-seven minutes west one thousand two hundred and six feet and four-tenths of a foot; thence south fifteen degrees fifty-six minutes east six hundred and seventy-six feet and one-tenth of a foot; thence along the line of highwater mark of South Harbour, Cut Throat Island in a general northeasterly direction one thousand two hundred and five feet to a poing marked by an iron pin; thence by Crown Land north one degree thirty-three minutes east four hundred and five feet and nine-tenths of a foot more or less to Monument 4; thence by the aforesaid land occupied in connection with the Mid-Canada Line north two degrees two minutes east one hundred and fifty-eight feet and five-tenths of a foot; thence north four degrees thirteen minutes east four hundred and thirty-nine feet more or less to the point of beginning; all bearings being referred to the true meridian.

TG Channing

Clerk of the Executive Council
Acknowledged upon oath by the above named
JG Channing, Clerk of the Executive
Council before me this 22nd day of January AD 1960.

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Barrister at Law.