Roy Edgar Nelson (December 3, 1925 – March 26, 2012)[1][2] was a Canadian provincial politician.
[3] He was the first MLA for the Assiniboia-Gravelbourg district, representing the riding for a single term before losing to Allen Willard Engel of the NDP in the 1978 general election.
[4] Before entering politics, Roy Nelson served in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War.
After the war he was in business, then farmed and ranched in the Glentworth area in southern Saskatchewan.
He was active within the community, serving as president of the curling rink and leading the rink building committee, president of the Wood River Legion bantam baseball league, director and vice-president of the community hall and as local branch president and zone commander for the Royal Canadian Legion.