True and Fascinating Canadian History
In Memory of RCMP Members Who Died in Manitoba
RCMP Statue
Redevers, Manitoba.
Canada
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Rede vers is a town in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. The town, along the Red Coat Trail, is named after General Sir Redvers Henry Buller VC., GCB., GCMG.
Redvers is the first town one passes through travelling west from Manitoba on the Red Coat Trail, once a thoroughfare of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and now modern Highway 13.
A statue of a Mountie on a horse can be seen just west of the intersection of Highway 13 and Highway 8.
This is a depiction of the Great March West by Vancouver artist Mr. Robert Banks, from the 1973 Centennial
Calendar which was commissioned by the Regina, SK Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the
Force in 1973.
Red Coat Trail roughly follows an approximately 1300 km journey taken by the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) to bring the law and order to the Canadian West.
From Fort Dufferin, Manitoba to the Old Man River in southwestern Alberta where they established Fort MacLeod.
