National Historic Sites of Canada Order — National Historic Sites of Canada Order
All that parcel of land described as follows, that is to say: BEGINNING at a granite monument inscribed W.D.10A, the said granite monument being about nine hundred feet north of the road extending from the Signal Hill to Cuckold’s Cove; THENCE running south eighty-seven degrees east five hundred and fifty feet; THENCE running north eighty degrees thirty-one minutes east eight hundred and thirty feet and one-tenth of a foot; THENCE running north sixty-two degrees fifty minutes east nine hundred and twenty-two feet and four-tenths of a foot to an iron marker set in the ground at the intersection of the easterly side of the aforesaid road with the westerly side of a branch road leading to the shore at Quidi Vidi Harbour; THENCE running south thirty-eight degrees thirty-one minutes east one hundred and seventy-one feet and nine-tenths of a foot; THENCE running south forty-two degrees forty-seven minutes east one hundred and three feet and nine-tenths of a foot; THENCE running north eighty-two degrees thirty minutes east one hundred and twenty-three feet and four-tenths of a foot; THENCE running south ten degrees forty-three minutes west two hundred and fifty feet more or less to the shore of Cuckold’s Cove at ordinary high-water mark; THENCE running in a general southerly direction along the sinuosities of the shoreline at ordinary high-water mark of Cuckold’s Cove, Soldiers Gulch to North Head; THENCE continuing along the shoreline at ordinary high-water mark in a general westerly direction to a point in the shore of Hay Cove, the said point being four hundred and seventy-eight feet measured on a bearing of south sixty-seven degrees forty-five minutes east from an iron marker set in rock near the southwesterly corner of Queen’s Battery; THENCE running north sixty-seven degrees forty-five minutes west four hundred and seventy-eight feet to the said iron marker near the southwesterly corner of the Queen’s Battery; THENCE running north fifty-two degrees fifty-six minutes west eight hundred and sixty-three feet and three-tenths of a foot; THENCE running north sixty-three degrees forty-six minutes west three hundred and thirty-two feet; THENCE running north thirty-eight degrees twenty minutes west two hundred and seventy-three feet to an iron marker set in the ground; THENCE running north fifty-four degrees sixteen minutes east one hundred and thirty-six feet and nine-tenths of a foot; THENCE running north thirty-seven degrees forty-nine minutes east two hundred and eighty-two feet and seven-tenths of a foot; THENCE running north forty degrees fifty-one minutes east two hundred and sixty-three feet to a point on Signal Hill Road; THENCE running north thirty degrees six minutes east sixty-six feet and two-tenths of a foot; THENCE running north fifteen degrees east one thousand and sixty-five feet; THENCE running north thirty-nine degrees three minutes west two hundred and ninety-six feet; THENCE running north fifty-eight degrees twenty-nine minutes east three hundred and fifty-eight feet and seven-tenths of a foot to a granite monument inscribed W.D. 10; THENCE running north forty-one degrees fifteen minutes east six hundred and one feet more or less to the point of beginning and containing an area of two hundred and sixty acres more or less, all bearings being referred to the true meridian. EXCEPTING THEREFROM the whole of parcels A and B, in Signal Hill National Park, in the Electoral District of St. John’s East, in the province of Newfoundland, said parcels containing together by admeasurement sixteen acres and sixty-three hundredths of an acre, more or less, as said parcels are shown bordered red on a plan of record number forty-three thousand two hundred and four in the Legal Surveys and Aeronautical Charts Division of the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys at Ottawa, a copy of which has been registered in the Office of the Registrar of Deeds at St. John’s under Vol. three hundred and eighty-eight, Folio seventy-three.