Cheadle, Alberta
| Cheadle | |
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| Hamlet | |
 Cheadle
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| Coordinates: 51°00′51″N 113°32′35″W / 51.01417°N 113.54306°WCoordinates: 51°00′51″N 113°32′35″W / 51.01417°N 113.54306°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Alberta
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| Region | Calgary Region |
| Census division | 5 |
| Municipal district | Wheatland County |
| Subdivided | 1906 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Unincorporated |
| • Reeve | Glenn Koester |
| • Governing body |
Wheatland County Council
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| Area | |
| • Land | 0.17 km2 (0.07 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 990 m (3,250 ft) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 91 |
| Time zone | MST (UTC−7) |
| • Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC−6) |
| Postal code | T1P 1J6 |
| Highways | Highway 24, South of Highway 1 |
| Website | www.cheadlealberta.com |
Cheadle is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada, within Wheatland County. It is located on Highway 24, 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) south of the Highway 1 and approximately 35 kilometers (22 mi) east of the City of Calgary.
The Cheadle Airport is located 7.4 kilometers (4.6 mi) northwest of Cheadle. It is a 1,200 meters (3,900 ft) turf airstrip run by G. Jackson.
The Canadian Pacific Railway named the community Cheadle for Dr. Walter Butler Cheadle of Milton and Cheadle explorers who traveled across the prairies and Rocky Mountains in the 1860s.Dr. Cheadle and Lord Milton were co-authors of the book "The North-West Passage by Land" (London, 1865), which described their expedition in considerable detail.
A record was made when laying the railroad tracks between Strathmore and Cheadle when the railway was built. "In one hour a mile of steel was laid. And, at the end of the ten-hour working day, the rails were laid to Cheadle, nine miles and 300 feet for a record." The ties had been strung the night before.
There was just one minor building in Cheadle when the early ranchers and homesteaders began to arrive in the late 1890s. It was a post office, store, and boarding home, run by Mrs. Florence Belwer for the C.P.R. section-men. Cheadle began to grow in the years 1906-1916 to a hardware store, barbershop, blacksmith, restaurant, pool hall, dance hall, three grocery stores, water tank, C.P.R. station and section houses, stockyards, lumberyard, two grain elevators, and several residences. The C.P.R. had once planned to locate Ogden Shops in Cheadle.
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