Wheeler produced viable economic wheat and fruit strains for a short prairie growing season with harsh winters.
He was designated as a person of national historic significance in 1988 by the Canadian federal government and inducted into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame.
Morris Bodnar, Member of Parliament for Saskatoon—Dundurn, commemorated Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm as a National Historic Site of Canada on August 3, 1996.
[5] The site is honoured as the location where hardy wheat and fruit strains were developed which were well suited to the prairie climate and growing season.
He co-authored a book with Herbert Joseph (Hopkins) Moorhouse called “Seager Wheeler's Profitable Grain Growing”.