Chiropractic History assignment Dr. Joshua Haldeman and the Lost City of the Kalahari, Part 2 Left: The Flying Haldemans: Scott, Lynne, Wyn, Joshua, Kaye, Angkor Lee and Maye, 1958. Middle: Kalahari Colours: Joshua and Angkor Lee with a reporter from “Die Transvaaler” newspaper. Right: Wyn, Angkor Lee and Joshua sample desert fare. Steve Zoltai is the collections de- velopment librarian and archivist for CMCC and is a member of the Canadian Chiropractic Historical Association. He was previously the Assistant Executive Director of the Health Sciences Information Con- sortium of Toronto. He has worked for several public and private libraries and with the University of Toronto Archives. Steve comes by his interest in things historical honestly – he worked as a field archeologist for the Province of Manitoba. He can be contacted at [email protected]. places in Africa. Part 2 continues the story of a legendary city buried in the sands of the Kala- hari Desert and a Saskatchewan chiropractor’s efforts to find it. I dr. JosHUa n. HaldEman, dC Though separated by several generations, Dr. Joshua Haldeman and his countryman had much in common. Like Farini, Haldeman was a restless spirit. Born in 1902 to Almeda Haldeman, the first known chiropractor to practise in Canada, and obtaining his chiro- practic credentials in 1926, Haldeman set out at a fast pace to establish himself as a major figure as a chiropractic leader and as a political economist. Practising in Regina, he was the driving force behind obtaining and drafting Saskatchewan’s 1943 Chiropractic Act. He served on the province’s first board of examiners as well as the provincial society’s first executive board and represented Saskatchewan in negotiations leading to the formation of the Dominion Council of Canadian Chiropractors, which was the predecessor body to the Canadian Chiropractic Association. Later, he participated in establishing the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, for which he served as a member on the first board of directors. Never one to limit himself to professional activities, Haldeman also chaired the Social Credit Party during the Second World War, subsequently making an unsuccessful run for Parliament and managing to land himself in jail briefly for his political views.1 In 1950, however, he packed up the family and moved to South Africa, a country he had never been to and where he did not know a soul. Citing what he saw as deterioration in the political and moral culture of Canada, it may be closer to the truth that, in middle age, his adventurous spirit was becoming restless for new challenges. It is probably no coincidence 22 • CANADIAN CHIROPRACTOR | FEBRUARY 2010 www.canadianchiropractor.ca n Part 1, the famed 19th century funambulist, showman and adventurer, The Great Farini – a.k.a. Bill Hunt from Port Hope, Ontario – discovers what appears to be the ruins of an advanced civilization in the unmapped heart of one of the most remote and inhospitable Steve Zoltai feature
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