William Finlayson

William Finlayson (December 12, 1874 November 14, 1943) was an Ontario lawyer, cabinet minister and political figure. Early life Born in Brantford, Ontario, he was the son of Alexander F. Finlayson and Annie Tupper, and was educated at Jarvis Collegiate Institute and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Ontario. He set up practice in Midland in 1897 in partnership with William Humphrey Bennett. In 1905, he married Ethel Cora Sinclair. He was President of the Simcoe Railway and Power Company, which constructed the Big Chute hydroelectric plant in 1909. The plant was acquired by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario in 1914, being the first station owned and operated by it.