His parents are a strange lot as well. His mother, Maye, who was born in Regina, was a well regarded beauty in her youth. She was once a finalist for Miss South Africa and made her career as a successful model. She's been featured in New York Magazine, in Revlon ads, on the cover of Time and in a Beyonce video. Now at 70 she is Covergirl's oldest ever spokesmodel.

Her ex-Husband, Elon's father Errol Musk, is, as Elon once put it "a terrible human" and "evil". At 72 he had a baby with his 30 year old stepdaughter whom he'd known since she was a baby.

The family doesn't talk about him much though; it seems out of respect for the stepdaughter and their child, but it's very clear he isn't well liked amongst the rest of the family.

Elon's brother Kimbal is one of his closest friends, he is a successful entrepreneur himself, known as the "King of the Modern Food Movement", whatever that means. He runs community restaurants and he co-founded Big Green, a non-profit that builds outdoor classrooms in school yards. He also sits on the boards of Tesla, SpaceX and Chipotle and is a major Tesla shareholder.

Tosca Musk, Elon's sister, is a filmmaker of some renown. When she was 14, Tosca sold the family home in South Africa while everyone else was out of the country.

But that isn't where the line of interesting and exciting family members ends. It goes back even further and it ends up in Moose Jaw.

Elon's grandfather, Joshua Norman Haldeman has an interesting history in Saskatchewan. He moved to Herbert in 1907. He was a man's man; he rode broncos and took up boxing and wrestling. He broke horses for local farmers, a tough job; extremely dangerous. He also organized one of Canada's first rodeos. The man was a risk-taker and a trail blazer, not much unlike his future grandson.

Haldeman was both a farmer and a Chiropractor (interestingly enough, his mother, Elon's great-grandmother is thought by many to have even Canada's first practicing Chiropractor. PubMed even confirms this. That’s just one more risk-taking trailblazer in the bloodline).

During the Great Depression of the 1930s Grandpa Haldeman fell into harsh financial woes. The Bank loans on his farming equipment became too much for him to handle. The government seized five thousand acres of land from him. The loss caused him to lose trust in banks and he became an estranged nomad of sorts, wandering around Canada working odd jobs, before finally settling down and putting his Chiropractic practice to good use.

He became incensed with the Canadian government and as a result he attempted to create his own political party here. He was a staunch conservative and a populist, strongly opposing both socialism and nazism. He was unsuccessful in running for Parliament and became the Chair of the Social Credit Party. He also once did a stint in jail for his political views.

Oh yeah, Grandpa Haldeman studied at Moose Jaw College; which is what Chateau St. Michael's was between 1913 and 1931. Maybe it was during his time in Moose Jaw that Haldeman met the woman who would become his wife; a dance instructor named Winnifred Josephine Fletcher. "Wyn", as she preferred to be called, was, as we have already been made aware, a Moose Jaw girl herself.

They had five children while living in Sasakatchewan, two of them twin girls, Kaye and Maye. Maye, remember, is Musk's mother. Unfortunately I’m nothing more than a glorified Googler and there isn’t a lot of information to be found online regarding Elon’s Grandma outside of the stories about his Grandpa. I did learn, however, that she passed away in 2012 and was buried in Canmore, Alberta.

Haldeman was an interesting cat. He took up flying and purchased a single-engine plane. It wasn't unheard of for him to show up to political events flying it.

You could say that flight consumed him in his later life. He and his wife co-wrote a book together about their air travels: The Flying Haldeman's: Pity the Poor Private Pilot.

He Libertarian politics and disenfranchisement with his government led him toward leaving Canada. He felt the country was undergoing a moral decline and he wanted no part in it. He uprooted his entire family and moved to South Africa without having been there or even having a place to live. His family disassembled the plane and shipped it to South Africa, where they then rebuilt it and used it to fly around looking for some property to call home.

Elon's mother was a young teenager at the time she moved to South Africa. She stayed there until her own children were nearly adults.