Midland Railway of Canada

The Midland Railway of Canada was a historical Canadian railway which ran from Port Hope, Ontario to Midland on Georgian Bay.

This railway was originally conceived as a rail link between Port Hope and Peterborough; the company was originally named Peterborough and Port Hope Railway Company chartered December 16, 1846. Six years lapsed 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 & Beaverton Railway Company.

Although it would be quite some time before the rails were pushed beyond Lindsay, more than a year before the line opened to Beaverton, January 1, 1871, the road planned a more ambitious expansion to the waters of Georgian Bay, renaming the road Midland Railway of Canada, on December 24, 1869. It was completed in 1879 and did include a rail link to Peterborough. In 1893, it was bought out by the Grand Trunk Railway. It was eventually absorbed into the Canadian National Railway system.