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Western Surety Company
If you’re a 110-year-old company, you must be doing something correctly.
Regina-based Western Surety began life in 1909 as the Saskatchewan Fidelity and
Guarantee Company. In the century-plus since its founding, it has been working behind
the scenes with a variety of Canadian clients, big and small, providing them with the
backing that allows highways, byways, buildings and other infrastructure to be built. If
you’ve ever driven in Western Canada, chances are you’ve driven on roads insured by the
contributions of Western Surety. To quote something from the introductory page of their
website, they are “helping build Canada.”
“And it’s all been owned by the Hill family from day one,” said Scott Donald, the current
president and chief executive officer of Western Surety. It was Walter Hill all those years
ago who saw a niche for a service that the Saskatchewan Fidelity and Guarantee Company
could provide and started the company with 5,000 shares sold at $5 each (or a modest
$137,000 or so in today’s dollars). Successors Frederick Hill and Paul Hill have always remained
true to the values set by Walter.
Serving
Saskatchewan
for more than
a century
By Jim Chliboyko
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