Adding to Kobolds' reply, this link's to a decent CBC long read about Joshua Haldeman.
a few highlights:
-He was the head of Technocracy Inc's Regina branch and arrested during WW2 (link's to a newspaper clip from 1940).
-He was also one of the world's first chiropractors, and railed against fluoridation, vaccinations, and health insurance.
-He ran for the Prime Minister's gig twice and got VERY sooky when he lost.
-In 1948 when repeatedly interrupted by boos and catcalls at the Regina Housewives League party leaders' forum, Elon's granddaddy cried out: “I am making a speech here. Isn’t there still freedom of speech in Regina?”
-Then he heard South Africa would let him Lord it over the locals, so went there to be a super special Whitey. He didn't "flee" anything (except the reality that nobody wanted to vote for him).
-In 1951, he wrote in the Regina Leader-Post about his new life in SA: “We have two native (Negro) garden boys in the summer and one in the winter and a native girl. [...] The natives are very primitive and must not be taken seriously. We get quite a bang out of them and they are really quite useful. It takes three natives to do the work of one white man.”
-Following the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, Haldewell wrote at great length about how it's really "the white man" who's being discriminated against etcetcetc.
-He made his family spend their summers camping in the desert looking for a lost city of white people that gave South Africa civilization.
I only learned about any of this last year. Wish it was common knowledge during his "genius on The Big Bang" era.