Bruce County’s first bank robbery: the Royal Bank in Cargill

Henry Cargill was instrumental in getting a bank established in Cargill to serve his many business interests as well as local merchants and farmers. The Trader’s Bank opened in 1902, at 201 Cargill Road, and merged with the Royal Bank in 1912. In the summer of 1924, the original bank building burned to the ground in…

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Robin Hilborn, Bruce County Historical Society