Ontario Highway 519

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Highway 519
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Route information
Maintained by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
Length: 30.5 km[1] (19.0 mi)
Major junctions
West end:  Highway 17 near Obatanga Provincial Park
East end: Dubreuilville
Highway system
Highway 518 Highway 520

Secondary Highway 519, commonly referred to as Highway 519, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway is 30.5 km (19.0 mi) in length, connecting Highway 17 near Obatanga Provincial Park with Dubreuilville station. A private logging road continues east from there.

Highway 519 was assumed in 1956, 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.

Route description

Highway 519 is a short paved highway in the northern section of Algoma District which provides access to the remote village of Dubreuilville. The route begins east of Obatanga Provincial Park at Highway 17, 40 km (25 mi) north of Wawa and 45 km (28 mi) south of White River. From the it travels 30.5 km (19.0 mi) eastward through a hilly and heavily forested region.[2] The highway ends at Green Lake Road, just before entering Dubreuilville, a village built to service the Dubreuil Brothers lumber operations in the surrounding boreal forest. An access road continues east of the village to the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve, the largest game preserve in the world.[3]

History

Highway 519 is one of several dozen secondary highways designated at the beginning of 1956.[4][5] The highway has remained the same since it was designated, and was unaffected by highway downloading in the late-1990s.[2]

Major intersections

The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 519. The entirety of the highway is located within Algoma District.[2]

Location[2] km[1] Destinations Notes
Unorganized Algoma 0.0  Highway 17 – Wawa, White River
Dubreuilville 30.5 Green Lake Road Access to Chapleau Crown Game Preserve
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

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  3. Chapleau Regional Development Corporation, "Welcome to Chapleau - Four Seasons Guide to Northern Adventure", Chapleau, Ontario
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