Erin Village

Erin Village sits along the Credit River, with Main Street running through the middle of the village past older brick storefronts and heritage buildings. The Mill History walking trails and the Downtown Erin Heritage Walking Trail lead past the old mill sites that gave the village its start. McMillan Park on Main Street has a pavilion, lit pathways and benches, and the Erin Rotary Riverwalk Trail follows the river through Riverside Park. Every Thanksgiving weekend the Erin Fall Fair, first held in 1850, fills the fairgrounds, and the Elora Cataract Trailway leads out of the village toward Hillsburgh past farm fields and woodlots.

Surveyors named the township Erin in 1819 and 1820, after the poetic name for Ireland. Mills were built on the Credit River between 1826 and 1829, and the settlement was first known as McMillan's Mills, then Erinsville, later shortened to Erin. The Credit Valley Railway reached the village in 1879, the year it was incorporated. In 1997 the village and Erin Township joined as the Town of Erin.

The 2021 census counted about 1,035 homes in Erin Village. About six in seven are single detached houses, and about one in twelve are in apartment buildings under five storeys. About a quarter of homes were built in 1960 or earlier and about four in ten between 1961 and 1980. About a quarter were built between 1981 and 2000, and about one in eleven in 2001 or later.

Wellington Road 124 leads south-west from the village to Guelph, about 32 km away by road, a drive of about 30 minutes. Orangeville is about 23 km north, a drive of about 20 minutes. Downtown Brampton is about 44 km by road, a drive of about 40 minutes, by Highway 10 and Highway 410. Hillsburgh is a short drive north-west. The Elora Cataract Trailway, a 47 km trail on the former Credit Valley Railway line between the Forks of the Credit and Elora, passes through the village.

Centre 2000, the Erin Community Centre at 14 Boland Drive, has a full-size ice pad, a banquet hall, a theatre, tennis courts and a lit ball diamond, with the Erin SkatePark beside it. McMillan Park at 109 Main Street has a pavilion, lit pathways and a chess table. Lions' Club Park on Water Street has a playground and pavilion, and Carberry Park and Mountainview Parkette are close to home. The Erin Village branch of the Wellington County Library is at 135 Daniel Street.

• Erin Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for the village, on Daniel Street, and its middle school for Grades 7 and 8, with French immersion in Grades 7 and 8.
• Brisbane Public School — JK to Grade 6. The French immersion school for the Town of Erin from JK to Grade 6, in Brisbane.
• Erin District High School — Grades 9 to 12. The public secondary school for the Town of Erin, on Boland Drive, with French immersion.
• St. John Brebeuf Catholic School — JK to Grade 8. The Catholic elementary school for the Town of Erin, on Millwood Road.
• St. James Catholic High School — Grades 9 to 12. The Catholic secondary school for the Town of Erin, in Guelph.