Early Days
This railway was originally conceived as a rail link between Port Hope and Peterborough and the company was originally named The Peterborough and Port Hope Railway Company, chartered December 16, 1846. Six years elapsed and nothing was done about it. On December 18, 1854, a new charter was issued for a line of railway from Port Hope to Lindsay, with hopes of eventually extending to Lake Simcoe. It was named The Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway Company.
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“In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread’; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.”
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