Area Information - Erin, Ontario

Welcome to the Town of Erin. We are located about 80 kilometres northwest of Toronto, in the province of Ontario, Canada. There are approximately 11,000 people in Erin and we are primarily a rural municipality. Farming is still an important economic activity, but most of our population works in the nearby cities of Brampton, Mississauga, Guelph, or even Toronto. The headwaters of two major rivers, the Credit and the Grand, rise in our municipality, and we are blessed with rolling hills, forested valleys, and a beautifully scenic countryside.

The Town is composed of the former Villages of Erin and Hillsburgh, and the hamlets of Ballinafad, Brisbane, Cedar Valley, Crewson's Corners, and Orton, as well as the former Township of Erin. If you happen to be traveling through our town, and you don't want to be marked as a foreigner, pronounce it "Earin" not "Airin".

The industrial park in Erin is filling up quickly with a number of new industries, as we offer a favourable tax structure and easy accessibility to the economic heartland of Ontario. We are located in the "Technology Triangle" which includes the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge and features many of the new high-tech industries that are driving the "New Economy".

We have just built "Centre 2000", a new facility that incorporates an existing arena, with a new high school, a theatre, library, tennis courts, and space for community support programmes. We have just purchased land adjacent to our existing ballpark (Barbour Field) so that we can handle an enrolment of over 800 children and young adults in our local soccer programme.