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Standard Bank of Canada
1930
Located on Main Street in Ashern

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The Bank - important in the history of any growing town. People come to protect their money and to see it grow. As the community progresses it can finance new businesses and farming operations.
Now as soon as banks got started the bank robber also got started, did you now that Ashern has the distinction of being the last place in Canada where a bank was robbed by theives using horses? Yes, it does and quite a history!

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Bank Robbers demand the money in the vault when they hold up the Standard Bank in Ashern!
2000
Ashern Pioneer Museum grounds

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The robbery happened Friday, December 28, 1934 at the Standard Bank in Ashern. The Robbers escaped to the Birch Lake area. A Posse headed by an RCMP officer followed. They found the Robbers in a cabin. One was shot. The other fellow claimed the man committed sucide. To this day no one is sure if one did not turn aganist the other?

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Dramatization of the 1934 bank robbery in Ashern.
2002
Reenacted for the Thresherman's Reunion September 2000 at the Ashern Pioneer Museum grounds

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"Stick em up and hand over your cash!" Bandits force Mac McGiffen and Cathy Foord to open the cash compartment in the safe. They are then tied up and forced to lay on the floor while the bandits make their getaway.

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This event was the subject of a comic book.
28 December 1934

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The comic strip that appeared in England about the robbery.

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Cartoon depicting the 1934 Ashern Bank Robbery.
28 December 1934