The Surridges of Woodleigh tells the story of the lives of the author's ancestors who left their loved ones in England in the late 1800s to make a better life for themselves on the sparsely populated prairies of post-confederation Canada.
From a graveyard in a small village in Devon to an unmarked grave by the ocean in Victoria, British Columbia, the author has traced the lives of her grandfather, Samuel Surridge, his wife Agnes Annie Brown...