Co-Op Insurance
by Leo Seipp
Co-op insurance, now serving all provinces across Canada, had its origin in Saskatchewan with its home office in Regina in 1945.
The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool contributed twenty-five thousand to the Guaranteed fund required to form the Co-operative Life Insurance company. In 1952 the Co-operative Fire and Casualty Company was formed and issued its first policy in June, 1952.
Records show that the following persons served the Estevan area as the companies' representatives. S. Banks, G. Garratt, W. Lee, E. Nogue, K. Mitchell, J. West, Duncan Cook, Gerald toovey, E. Dionne, D. Pearce, J.H. Salt, Ken Richardson, W. Barton, A.H. Campbell, A. MacQuarrie, W.F. Gordon, R. Mickleborough, John Pister, E.E. Johnson, A. Magnusson, J.M. Zakreski, Russ Baker, S. Feldman, A. Fincati, Gordon Currie, R.J. Brown, C.D. Cummings, C. Wagner, Reg Chessalll.
Weburn area representatives, Robert Collier, follwed by the present representative, your writer, Leo Seipp, who started on February first, 1970 and has completed ten full years of service to the policy holders of the area.
In 1963 C.I.S. Ltd., a holding company, was formed to embrace the various types of insurance sold by the existing insurance companies. Further, in 1978, the name of the holding company was changed to the Co-operators Group Ltd. to include all provinces of Canada in Co-Op Insurance. The sales and service to all Co-Op insurance policy holders in the Estevan area has been a satisfying experience for me, as to quality and growth.