Wawanesa Insurance
The Wawanesa Insurance executive office building, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. | |
| Company type | Mutual |
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| Industry | General insurance |
| Founded | September 25, 1896, in Wawanesa, Manitoba |
| Founder | Alonzo Fowler Kempton |
| Headquarters | Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada |
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Number of employees | 5,900 (2020) |
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| Website | wawanesa.com |
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Wawanesa Insurance—officially The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, also known as Wawanesa Mutual or simply Wawanesa—is a Canadian mutual insurance firm, as well as among Canada's ten largest property and casualty insurers.
The company's head office is located in Wawanesa, Manitoba, with its executive office in Winnipeg and regional offices across Canada; it also previously operated in the US states of California and Oregon until April of 2024. As of 2020, it has assets of over $11.3 billion and over two million policies in force.
Wawanesa Insurance wholly owns two subsidiaries: Wawanesa Life, its life insurance subsidiary; and Trimont Financial Ltd., which provides direct support to local brokers. Wawanesa Insurance and its subsidiaries compose a corporate group called The Wawanesa Group of Companies.