[5] 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.

And, at the end of the ten-hour working day, the rails were laid to Cheadle, nine miles and 300 feet for a record.

It was a post 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 a hardware store, barbershop, blacksmith, restaurant, pool hall, dance hall, three grocery stores, water tank, CPR station and section houses, stockyards, lumberyard, two grain elevators, and several residences.

A lack of directional sign along Highway 1, indicating Cheadle's location, also contributed to the hamlet's demise.

It was purchased by Fritz Gosteli, a local acreage owner originally from Switzerland, who transformed the building into a two-story 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.