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WELCOME TO THE TOWN OF REDVERS!
Gateway to the Red Coat Trail
Our History...
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Our town has a unique history based on
a man who had a difficult life within war. The town's name is based around a
military war hero Sir Redvers Buller. Redvers Buller was born at Crediton,
Devonshire in 1839. As a new soldier he saw his first action in the China
War of 1860. In 1870 at the time of the Red River Rebellion, British and
Ontario soldiers were sent to quell the rebellion. Captain Buller was in
charge of one such company. The Red Coat Trail, which is number two highway
in Manitoba and highway thirteen in Saskatchewan today, was the trail that
they had taken at the time of the Red River Rebellion. Redvers originally
began as a camping site of the men who were fighting this war.
By 1874, Buller was in the Ashantee War. In 1879 he was sent on special
service to the Cape, held command of the Frontier Light Horse in the Kaffir
War of 1878-79, and served with great gallantry in the Zulu War. He was
present at Tel-el-kebir, at El Teb and Tami, and accompanied the Nile
Expedition of 1884. After twenty-eight years of military service, Captain
Buller became General Sir Redvers Buller, Commander-in-Chief of the British
forces in South Africa until 1900, during the Boer War. Since he had spent a
large part of his military career in Africa in the Zulu War, he received the
Victoria Cross for gallantry. He died in 1908.
In 1897-98 surveyors arrived at the point where Redvers now stands and were
called upon to give the town a name. The headlines in the newspaper that
evening carried the news of the Boer War and mentioned the names of Generals
Sir Redvers Buller, Warren, Rhodes, Metheun and Wauchope.
Our town, incorporated in 1905, was given the name of Redvers and our
streets the names of the other generals. A statue of a Northwest Mounted
Policeman in our town commemorates the Red Coat Trail, which runs through
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