Timothy Irving Frederick Findley was a novelist and playwright. He wrote a memoir, From Stone Orchard, about his experiences living at a farm on the outskirts of Cannington.
Findley was born in 1930 in Toronto and resided at Stone Orchard, a farm near Cannington, Ontario, and Stratford.
He joined the original acting ensemble of the Stratford Festival in 1953, acting alongside Alec Guinness.
In the mid-1990s, he moved to Stratford, Ontario, and divided his time between there and France. He died in Provence in 2002.