Kelsey is home to several local businesses, a community hall, and a post office.In 1902, Mr. and Mrs. Moses Kelsey and their son Earl, arrived in the area from Milbank, South Dakota, and filed on the S.E.Milton Zimmerman settled in the area in the same year and suggested the community be named after Kelsey.[3] In 1915, the Canadian National Railway began laying steel in a south-easterly direction from Camrose.In 1916, a station house was built in Kelsey and Charlie Cooper, with his wife Anne and family, took up residence in it.