Saint-Hélène-de-Breakeyville is a district (''secteur'') within the Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est borough of the city of

Lévis Lévis () is a city in eastern Quebec, Canada, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec City. A ferry links Old Quebec with Old Lévis, and two bridges, the Quebec Bridge and the Pierre-Laporte Bridge, connect we ...

. It is located on the

Chaudière River The Chaudière River (; French for "Cauldron" or "Boiler"; Western Abenaki, Abenaki: Kik8ntekw) is a river with its source near the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Town of Lac-Mégantic, in southeast Quebec, Canada. From its source Lake Mégantic in the ...

. Prior to 2002, it was an independent municipality.

History

This town was founded by the Breakey family in 1909. John Breakey, who received a concession for this region, employed many local people at his sawmill in the beginning of the 1920s. Even during the depression of the thirties,

timber rafting Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. It is arguably, after log driving, the second cheapest mea ...

on the river provided jobs for many families. A closed local economy gave this town an exclusive status for several decades. The mill stopped operating because of decreased timber rafting and the modernization of transport options for the forest industry in the region. The residences of the Breakey family still exist and remain as attractions for their historic architecture. Neighbourhoods in Lévis, Quebec Former municipalities in Quebec Populated places disestablished in 2002 {{ChaudièreAppalaches-geo-stub