In 2011 Ridgeway came to figure fictionally in Guy Vanderhaeghe's new novel A Good Man (McClelland & Stewart, 2011) and became the subject of the first book-length study focusing on the battle to be published in over one hundred years: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada., (Penguin, 2011) by the investigative historian Peter Vronsky.