Highway 19 was acquired by the City of Edmonton in the land annexation approved by the Province in 2019.

At the east end of Nisku, the divided highway ends and the two-lane road continues east to an intersection with Highway 814 in Beaumont, providing an alternate route north into Edmonton.

[8] In the 1960s, the preferred route to connecting Beaumont to Highway 2 and Highway 21 was Township Road 510, located north of Beaumont;[9] however, as access was later consolidated and became more limited, Township Road 504 was selected as the preferred route.

In c. 1974, the numbered secondary highway system appeared, which at the time was under the jurisdiction of the local rural municipality.

The project includes eight intersection upgrades; two new bridges at Whitemud Creek; illumination at Highway 60 and airport access road; speed limit increase to 110 km/h (68 mph); and traffic signals at the airport access road intersection with a limit of 70 km/h (43 mph).