Cheadle | |
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Hamlet | |
  Cheadle | |
| Coordinates:51°00′51″N113°32′35″W / 51.01417°N 113.54306°W /51.01417; -113.54306 | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Alberta |
| Region | Calgary Region |
| Census division | 5 |
| Municipal district | Wheatland County |
| Subdivided | 1906[1] |
| Government | |
| • Type | Unincorporated |
| • Reeve | Glenn Koester |
| • Governing body | Wheatland County Council
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| • Administrative body | Cheadle Community Association |
| Area (2021)[3] | |
| • Land | 0.43 km2 (0.17 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 990 m (3,250 ft) |
| Population (2021)[3] | |
• Total | 83 |
| • Density | 192.3/km2 (498/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−7 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−6 (MDT) |
| Postal code | T1P 0X8 |
| Highways | Highway 24, South ofHighway 1 |
| Website | www.cheadlealberta.ca |
Cheadle is ahamlet inAlberta, Canada withinWheatland County.[4] It is located onHighway 24, 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) south of theHighway 1 and approximately 35 kilometers (22 mi) east of the City ofCalgary.
Cheadle Airport is located 7.4 kilometers (4.6 mi) northwest of Cheadle. It is a 1,200 meters (3,900 ft) turf airstrip.
TheCanadian Pacific Railway named the communityCheadle forWalter Butler Cheadle of Milton and Cheadle explorers who travelled across the prairies andRocky Mountains in the 1860s.[5] Cheadle andLord Milton were co-authors of the bookThe North-West Passage by Land (London, 1865), which describes their expedition in considerable detail.
A record was made when laying therailway track betweenStrathmore and Cheadle when the railway was built. "In one hour a mile of steel was laid. And, at the end of the ten-hourworking day, the rails were laid to Cheadle, nine miles and 300 feet [14.58 km] for a record."[6] The ties had been laid 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 apost office, store, and boarding home, run by Mrs. Florence Belwer for the CPR section-men. Cheadle began to grow in the years 1906–1916 to ahardware store, barbershop,blacksmith, restaurant,pool hall,dance hall, threegrocery stores,water tank, CPR station and section houses, stockyards, lumberyard, twograin elevators, and several residences. The CPR had once planned to locate Ogden Shops in Cheadle.
The arrival of theautomobile and another CPR line fromGleichen to Calgary, throughCarseland andDalemead, along with the building of theCanadian Northern Railway throughLyalta andArdenode, quickly halted the growth of Cheadle. A lack of directional sign alongHighway 1, indicating Cheadle's location, also contributed to the hamlet's demise. Most travellers became completely unaware of Cheadle's existence, and it was often missed from Alberta maps.
At one time grain was hauled to Cheadle from Carseland. The transport teams ate and rested in Cheadle before returning. This all brought much of the business to Cheadle and raised the total number ofgrain elevators to three. By 1971, Cheadle's post office and grocery store closed. It was purchased by Fritz Gosteli, a local acreage owner originally from Switzerland, who transformed the building into a two-storey single-family residence. There were two main businesses at that time; Risdon's Tomato Enterprise and Ken Hendry's Manufacturing, which was built two years prior. There were only a few residents at that time: Ken & Leona Hendry, Leon & Kay Risdon and family, Tommy Kildea, Doug & Kathy Davies and family, Fritz & ChristineGosteli and family, Mr. & Mrs. H. V. Iles, Dietrich & Regina Volkmann. Between Cheadle and Highway 1 there was Ken and Bev Jones and family, Mr. & Mrs. M. Landru and family, and Mr. & Mrs. H. McElroy and family, and Mr. & Mrs. E. A. Cobb.[7]
In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, Cheadle had a population of 83 living in 35 of its 36 total private dwellings, a change of-23.9% from its 2016 population of 109. With a land area of 0.43 km2 (0.17 sq mi), it had a population density of193.0/km2 (499.9/sq mi) in 2021.[3]
As a designated place in the2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cheadle had a population of 91 living in 31 of its 31 total private dwellings, a change of8.3% from its 2011 population of 84. With a land area of 0.17 km2 (0.066 sq mi), it had a population density of535.3/km2 (1,386.4/sq mi) in 2016.[17]
There is a 5.2-metre-tall (17 ft) statue of aCheetos corn puff located at 400 Railway Avenue.[18] Unveiled in October 2022, the statue was commissioned by the Cheetos Brand, part ofPepsiCo Foods. It was not a permanent fixture, and left Cheadle after November 4, 2022, for a tour around Canada.[19]
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