Redvers is a town in southeast

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, Canada. It is the first town one passes through travelling west from Manitoba on the

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, the path taken by the North-West Mounted Police on their

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in 1874, and now modern

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. A statue of a Mountie on a horse can be seen just west of the intersection of Highway 13 and Highway 8. The town has a public school, hospital, two banks, and other businesses and services. Like most towns in the area, its economy is based on

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, and various services.

History

Views of Redvers, Saskatchewan (HS85-10-21843)

The town was named after General Sir

Redvers Buller General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, (7 December 1839 – 2 June 1908) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forc ...

in 1897. Buller was then fighting in the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South ...

, and had earlier in his career commanded a company to quell the

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. The town was incorporated in 1904. Its centennial was celebrated on 30 July 2004.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by Statistics Canada, Redvers had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Sports

Redvers is home to the Redvers Rockets, a senior men's

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team in the Big 6 Hockey League. It is also home to the Redvers A's of the Saskota Baseball League.

Climate

Notable Redvers people

Dean Kennedy Edward Dean Kennedy (born January 18, 1963) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Kennedy played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1982 to 1995 for the Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, Buffalo Sabres, Winnipeg Jets and E ...

- former NHL player. *

Val Sweeting Valerie Sweeting (born July 9, 1987 in Redvers, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Lottie Lake, Alberta She currently plays third for Team Kerri Einarson. Sweeting skipped Alberta to a silver medal at the and Scotties Tournament of H ...

- Curler

References

2021 Municipal Directory (http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/muniDetails.aspx?cat=2&mun=2175)

External links

* {{Authority control Towns in Saskatchewan Antler No. 61, Saskatchewan Division No. 1, Saskatchewan