Key pieces of information found in Crown grant documents include:

• Government file number, which enables access to files containing information on the original Crown grant application
• Crown grant number
• Date grant was created
• Name, address, occupation and tenant terms of who the land was granted to
• Purchase price, or consideration paid
• Legal description of the land granted
• Statutory provisions that the granted land is subject to
• May contain express words for limitation of estate, such as "access by water only"
• Express words for any reserves, exceptions or prior rights of way, for example, timber exclusion, or lands crossed by statutory right of way
• Normally contains a "tracing" - the official plan confirmed by the Surveyor General showing the area granted and surrounding cadastral information