 It is often claimed that Miner was the robber, but neither he nor his accomplices were ever tied conclusively to the Silverdale heist.It is also widely reported that Silverdale's train robbery was the first in Canada, but Peter Grauer's definitive study ("Interred With Their Bones", 2005) cites a train robbery in Port Credit, Ontario 30 years prior as the first.Miner was eventually caught after a botched payroll train robbery near Kamloops at Monte Creek (then known as "Ducks").