Career
He represented Salmon Arm in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1942 to 1945 as a Company-operative Commonwealth Federation (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) member. He was born in Middleboro and came to Canada in the early 1900s. Stirling first worked in lumber camps in British Columbia as a logger and carpenter.
He next worked as a clerk and immigration agent, then as a teacher in the Okanagan region.
He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1945. He also ran unsuccessfully for the Kamloops federal seat in 1935.
Stirling later owned a ranch on Shuswap Lake. He died in Victoria at the age of 88.