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History

In 1870, at the time of the Red River Rebellion, companies of British soldiers and Ontario residents were sent to quell the rebellion. Young Captain Buller was in charge of one such company. Twenty-eight years later he was General Sir Redvers Buller, Commander in Chief of the British forces in South Africa.

In 1897-98, surveyors arrived at the point where Redvers now stands and were called upon to give it a name. The headlines in the newspaper that night carried the news of the Boer War and mentioned the name of General Sir Redvers Buller, Warren, Rhodes, Methuen and Wauchope. Our town was given the name of Redvers and our streets the names of the other generals. The town was incorporated in 1904 and such is our history.