Wawanesa Insurance

Wawanesa Insurance
Company typeMutual
IndustryGeneral insurance
FoundedSeptember 25, 1896 (1896-09-25), in Wawanesa, Manitoba
FounderAlonzo Fowler Kempton
Headquarters
Winnipeg, Manitoba
,
Canada
Area served
  • Canada
Key people
  • Evan Johnston, CEO
Services
  • CA$88.6 million (2020)
Total assets
  • CA$11.3 billion (2020)
  • CA$9.5 billion (2018)
Number of employees
5,900 (2020)
Subsidiaries
  • Wawanesa Life
  • Trimont Financial
  • Western Financial Group, Inc (through Trimont Financial)
Websitewawanesa.com
Footnotes / references

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.