High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bankers` Toadies incident took place in 1937 in Alberta, Canada when a pamphlet was discovered advocating the "extermination" of nine men identified as "Bankers` Toadies". The men identified were opponents of the Social Credit government of Premier William Aberhart, which had been elected on a platform of giving all Albertans monthly dividends; Aberhart blamed the banking system for his failure to follow through on this pledge.