 Though Findley had declared his homosexuality as a teenager, he married actress/photographer Janet Reid in 1959, but the union lasted only three months and was dissolved by divorce or annulment two years later.Eventually he became the domestic partner of writer Bill Whitehead, whom he met in 1962.Findley and Whitehead also collaborated on several documentary projects in the 1970s, including the television miniseries "The National Dream" and "Dieppe 1942".