User:Immanuelle/Joshua Norman Haldeman

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Joshua Norman Haldeman was a Canadian leader of the Technocracy movement [en] and the father of Maye Musk [en] as well as the grandfather of Elon Musk. [1] He was also one of the first Canadian chiropractors [2] .

He was born in 1902 in Canada [2] . His mother, Dr. Almeda Haldeman-Wilson, was Canada's first chiropractor. [3]

He was arrested for protesting the Canadian government's entry into World War II, and then the technocrat movement was banned using the same laws used to ban fascist parties. [4]

He moved to South Africa in 1941 after he was arrested because he decided the Technocracy movement couldn't take over Canada. [5]

His son Scott Haldeman is an influential chiropractor. [2]

He wrote an anti-Semitic pamphlet entitled “The International Conspiracy to Establish a World Dictatopship & The Menace to South Africa" [6][1]

He died in 1974 from a plane crash. [7]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Lepore, Jill (2023-09-11). "How Elon Musk Went from Superhero to Supervillain". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Keating Jr, J. C.; Haldeman, S. (1995). "Joshua N Haldeman, DC: The Canadian Years, 1926-1950". The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association. 39 (3): 172–186. PMC 2485067.
  3. Turner, Ashley (2018-08-12). "Elon Musk comes from a family of entrepreneurs - here's who they are". CNBC. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
  4. https://archive.ph/zVZab
  5. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk/
  6. https://chiro.org/Plus/History/Persons/Haldeman/HaldemanJoshua-chrono.pdf
  7. "Elon's Grandfather - Part 4". web.archive.org. 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2024-03-31.