When Minnie Mae Aelick was born on 22 August 1898, in Sandfield, Central Manitoulin, Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada, her father, Ira Adam Aelick, was 28 and her mother, Agnes Coventry, was 18. She married William Finley on 23 March 1916, in Gore Bay, Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Algoma, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 19 March 1967, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Scarborough, York, Ontario, Canada.