On Friday, 7 November 1947, Finlayson married Jean Clancy Clark (1917–1999) at
St James the Apostle in Montreal. They had one daughter, Janet Betty. The couple divorced in 1975, and on 7 January 1976, he remarried to Madeleine Victoria Coussement (1924–2014). Finlayson died at the
Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke on 12 November 2003 at age 82. The funeral was held on 19 November at
St. Patrick's Basilica in Montreal. == References ==