Item is a map of property owned by John Smart on Walton Street. Railway shown on map was to be part of the Peterborough - Port Hope Railway, later Midland Railway.
File consists of ten (10) documents of correspondence regarding the Peterborough and Port Hope Railway Company. It includes: (1) Diagram of store lot and shop, Walton Street, 1876; (2) Copy re: land rental - store belonging to John Smart on Walton Street, 1854; (3) Letter from Thomas Benson, re: the lease of store from John Smart via Foster and Carson; (4) Letter to T. Benson from John Smart, 1854; (5) Copy of letter to directors, 1854; (6) Letter to Thomas Benson from John Smart, 1853; (7) Letter to John Smart from T. Benson, 1854; (8) Letter from E. P. Smith regarding property for railway; (9) 1854 document. Sidney Smith, Duncan McLeod and Charles Hughes; (10) Midland Railway Memorandum to John Smart Esq., Port Hope 1876.