Erie Mutual Fire Insurance Company was first organized on July 15, 1871 at Rainham, County of Haldimand. It commenced business on September 2, 1871 under the following board of Directors:

• President, Wm. Holmes
• Vice-president, Isaac Fry
• Secretary-treasurer, J.W. Holmes

Directors

• Valentine Dohn
• Jacob Mehlenbacher
• Daniel Rose
• Daniel Hoover
• Solomon Moyer
• Joseph Ross

David Boyer and Abraham Nash were appointed as agents for the company but restricted to survey and take applications at the rate of fifty cents in the Townships of Rainham, South Cayuga and Dunnville only.

In the beginning, the company insurance covered farm buildings basically against loss through fire. Today, however, the coverage offered by this same company is extensive. Although the company no longer carries the word Farmer in its name, nevertheless, it continues to serve the farms and the farming community.

In 1984, the Erie Mutual purchased an office building in Dunnville, Ontario. After renovations the head office was moved from Fisherville, Ontario to a more central location in Dunnville. With surplus over 11 million dollars, the company has continued to grow, to change with the current needs of the mutual insurance industry but at the same time, not lose site of the objectives of which our predecessors originally set forth over a century ago in Rainham Township.

There are now five agents for the company and the territory takes in the rural areas along the shores of Lake Erie from Niagara to Nanticoke, Ontario.

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