 No attack was made at Kilmorie, but the barn on his farm at Rosser was purposefully burned to the ground and twenty of his horses were killed.In 1923, Nanton was asked to Chair the non-profit Canada Colonization Association.Still exhausted from his exertions during the war, Nanton wanted to decrease his responsibilities but he accepted the position anyway, seen as the only man who could pull the committee together, a proof of his enduring reputation.