Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co. (Lindsay)

From humble beginnings we've grown into Ontario's largest farm mutual Company. But we're not just in the insurance business - we're active in the communities in which we serve. Farmers' Mutual - or the Farmers' Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company as it was known in the beginning - was formed in 1895 to provide insurance to farmers in Victoria County who couldn't find companies to insure them. The only insurance product we offered was a fire and lightning policy to insure farm buildings, chattels and livestock. In our first year of business we wrote insurance for 197 policyholders and collected slightly over $1200 in premiums. Today, Farmers' Mutual is the largest farm mutual insurance Company in Ontario and offers a complete range of insurance products including residential, automobile, commercial, farm and watercraft. We have almost 40,000 policyholders, who are also shareholders of the Company. Our assets exceed $152 million and our investments top $101 million.