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Stelfox, Henry
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Henry Stelfox, 1883-1974, was born in Lymm, England, educated at Manchester Grammar School and was an accountant's clerk in Manchester. He joined the South African Constabulary ca. 1903 and served until 1906, then emigrated to Alberta and homesteaded at Battle Lake. He also farmed at Morningside and Rimbey. During the First World War he worked at the shipyards in Victoria, British Columbia, and then settled at Rocky Mountain House, Alberta in 1920. He and his wife, Janet Katherine Glyde, 1888-1958, had nine children, Margaret (Scott), 1916- , Henry Bradshaw, David, John Glyde, Hilda (Jameson), Katherine (Coutney), Helen (Zander), Gertrude (Rudd) and Janet (Sande). He was an ardent conservationist and was active in the founding of the Alberta Fish and Game Association. He received the Julian Crandall Trophy for the most outstanding conservationist in Alberta in 1954. He had a close association with the Sunchild and O'Chiese First Nations, spoke their language, and was instrumental in encouraging them to adhere to Treaty 6. He also wrote many essays and poems about wildlife and conservation, native people, and Rocky Mountain House and its pioneers. He published two books of poems as well as Rambling Thoughts of a Wandering Fellow, 1903-1968 / ed. by John G. Stelfox. - Edmonton : I.D.B. Press, 1972.