Redvers, Saskatchewan
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Redvers is a small town in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is the first town one passes through traveling west from Manitoba on the "Redcoat trail", once a thoroughfare of the Mounties, and now modern Highway 13. A large statue of a Mountie on a horse can be seen on the road at the edge of town, just west of the intersection with north-south Highway 8.
The town has several churches, a public school, a small hospital and old-age home, a motel, and a weekly newspaper (The Optimist). Like most towns in the area, its economy is essentially based on farming, with some oil wells also added recently. Grain elevators are active along a Canadian Pacific Railway line paralleling the Redcoat trail.
The town was named in 1897–1898 after General Sir Redvers Buller, who was then fighting in the Second Boer War, and who had earlier in his career commanded a company to quell the Red River Rebellion. The town was incorporated in 1904. Its centennial was celebrated July 30 – August 1, 2004.
According to the Canada 2001 Census:
| Population: | 917 (-5.0% from 1996) |
| Land area: | 2.83 km² |
| Population density: | 324.3 people/km² |
| Median age: | 44.4 (males: 40.6, females: 47.8) |
| Total private dwellings: | 460 |
| Mean household income: | $29,132 |
