On 9 July 1883, Lilian, her mother, Anna Maria Godbolt Leveridge (1846-1927), and her six siblings (Edward, Arthur, Florence, Gertrude, Catherine, John)[a] joined the father.

The family settled in a one-room home on a 100 acres (40 ha) heavily timbered farm near Coe Hill, in the mining district of Wollaston Township, Hastings County, Ontario.

[1] Here, remote from church and school, for a time, she experienced the privations of pioneer life, but with the advantage of a refined home atmosphere and a devoted mother to guide her early education.

[2] After a course at the Winnipeg Collegiate Institute, she taught school for a summer at Glenboro, Manitoba, and then returned to Ontario, where she continued teaching for some years.

[15] Additional periodicals who published her verses included "Summer in the Heart" (The Daily Sun-Times, 1923);[16] and "The Wind" (Vernon News, 1931).