Secondary Highway 519, commonly referred to as Highway 519, is a provincially maintained highway in the

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province of

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. The highway is in length, connecting Highway 17 near Obatanga Provincial Park with

Dubreuilville Dubreuilville is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Algoma District. Established as a company town in 1961 by the Dubreuil Brothers lumber company, Dubreuilville was incorporated as a municipality in 1977. The town i ...

station. A private logging road continues east from that point. Highway 519 was assumed in 1985, and has remained unchanged since then. The route is paved throughout its length and encounters no communities of any size along its length, aside from Dubreuilville. A previous iteration of Highway 519 existed in

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between 1956 and 1984, travelling from north of

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to north of

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Route description

Highway 519 is a short paved highway in the northern section of

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which provides access to the remote village of Dubreuilville. The route begins east of Obatanga Provincial Park at Highway 17, north of Wawa and south of White River. From there it travels eastward through a hilly and heavily forested region. The highway ends at Green Lake Road, just before entering Dubreuilville, a village built to service the Dubreuil Brothers lumber operations in the surrounding

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. An access road continues east of the village to the

Chapleau Crown Game Preserve The Chapleau Crown Game Preserve is a fur bearing animal preserve area in Ontario, Canada, north-east of Lake Superior. It covers some in the Algoma and Sudbury Districts, and is officially classified as a Crown Game Preserve by the Government ...

, the largest

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in the world.Chapleau Regional Development Corporation, ''"Welcome to Chapleau - Four Seasons Guide to Northern Adventure"'', Chapleau, Ontario

History

Highway 519 was designated in 1985. The highway has remained the same since it was designated, and was unaffected by highway downloading in the late-1990s.

Major intersections

References

{{Ontario Secondary Highways 519