Massey Ferguson ~ It's The Family Business

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 27 (FAMILY BUSINESS)

This is week 8 of my blogging style switch

For the next several weeks I will post a photo and a brief description. 

This new style of posting is due to CMC Arthroplasty surgery on my left thumb. 

I will continue with this style until my thumb has sufficiently recovered.

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A few years ago Chris' cousin gifted this framed photo collection to him. Each of the letters is special to the family is some way. 

All the years while Chris was growing up his Grandpa Lyle owned the Massey Ferguson Dealership. 

When I first met Chris it was one of the first family facts he shared with me.  

Chris worked one summer for his grandfather Tabaco Farming.

He was very proud of all his grandfather accomplished.

For this reason it was my immediate thought for the prompt Family Business.

The R in the photo above is from the Massey Ferguson dealership signage.

When Chris and I met & he told me his stories, I had no idea I was related to Daniel Massey who was one of the founders of what would eventually become Massey Ferguson.

That knowledge appeared in an email from WikiTree telling me how I was connected.

Daniel Massey 

Birth 24 FEB 1798 • Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA

Death 15 NOV 1856 • Newcastle, Durham, Ontario, Canada

As often happens with WikiTree Connections Daniel is not directly related.

We are in the same general neighbourhood of this Bramble Bush.

Daniel is the Brother-In-Law of my 4th Great Aunt:

Rachael Merrill

Birth 5 FEB 1795 • Waterdown, New York, United States

Death 1 JAN 1878 • Haldimand, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

married Daniel's brother

Jonathan Massey

Birth 23 JUL 1792 • Windsor, Windsor, Vermont, USA

Death 9 AUG 1834 • Haldimand, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

The family connections do not end there.

Daniel Massey married

Lucinda Bradley

Birth 24 MAR 1803 • Watertown, Jefferson, New York, USA

Death 3 MAR 1872 • Newcastle, Ontario, Canada

Lucinda is sister of 

Drusilla Bradley

Birth 14 SEPT. 1815 • Haldimand, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

Death 1 FEB 1902 • Haldimand, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

Lucinda was married to my 4th great Uncle

Thomas Harrison Tuck

Birth 22 MAY 1816 • Sharrington, Norfolk, England

Death 9 JAN. 1865 • Eddystone, Haldimand Township, Ontario, Canada

Thomas' sister is my 4th great grandmother

Mary Ann Tuck

Birth 15 JAN 1823 • Sharrington, Norfolk, England

Death 28 JAN 1908 • Cramahe, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

married to my 4th great grandfather

Solomon Bayes

Birth 26 NOV 1815 • Hunworth, Norfolk, England

Death 25 OCT 1882 • Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

Finding the areas where both sides of this Bramble Bush intersect!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

 

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My Favourite Name ~ My Own

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 26 (FAVOURITE NAME)

This is week 7 of my blogging style switch

For the next several weeks I will post a photo and a brief description. 

This new style of posting is due to CMC Arthroplasty surgery on my left thumb. 

I will continue with this style until my thumb has sufficiently recovered.

~

My parents named me:

As a child I was Debbie - with a cute little heart over the i.

In my grade 7 class there was three of us named Debbie.

I seriously considering changing my name.

As an adult I chose:

I would like to think this is me:

My favourite name is my own.

When your own name is one of your favourites!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

Links:

Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
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Fan Club ~ When It's Your Child's

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 25 (FAN CLUB)

This is week 6 of my blogging style switch

For the next several weeks I will post a photo and a brief description. 

This new style of posting is due to CMC Arthroplasty surgery on my left thumb. 

I will continue with this style until my thumb has sufficiently recovered.

~

In 2004 our oldest found an ad in the newspaper for Model & Talent Search. 

He really wanted to go.

I had reservations about the field of acting, and was reluctant to take him.

Additionally I thought it was scammy.

Chris convinced me we needed to support our child in what they wanted to do reminding me he had wanted to be a pilot as a child and his family didn't support him.

He also told me that nothing would come of it because it was scammy, but our child would know we supported him.

The only concern Chris had was the event was during CSI, and he would be missing the episode (this was pre-pvrs so he really did miss that episode).

We went off to that convention with no  expectations beyond enjoying a family visit in the city with fantastic hotel discounts.

Our oldest left that convention signed to an agent.

In the weeks after he received 3 callbacks he didn't attend due to already being represented by an agency.

Turns out belief that nothing would come of this venture was mistaken, and now we were committed to supporting however we could.

This led to 3 years of multiple trips a week into Vancouver for auditions where he memorized pages of script to compete with others.

He decided he wanted to have more time for school & friends so left the acting business. 

He joined a local youth theatre group where he performed in many productions. 

AND continued to receive random cheques in the mail years later.

Head Shot (1 of 4 different ones used that year)

He has a page on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), and was an apprentice with The Union of British Columbia Performers (UBCP/ACTRA).

Not all of his projects are listed on IMDB.

There was this short filming about bullying he was cast as the popular boy who bullied the not so popular boys.

back row right in the classroom scene

On set I had to be within sight & sound of our son due to his age. As I watched all the goings on I realized 'this is where all those school films come from".

He was also a model for an author's illustrations for a fantasy adventure children's novel.

The short film, Shadows,  below he was a voice actor in.

His younger brother Child Voice 2.

He wasn't an actor, but the the Director heard him talk while we were waiting for his brother and asked him to join his film.

In another project our son played a child soldier named Daniel in a project with with Matilda Aslizadeh. The film was called Hero of Our Time

Matilda Aslizadeh explained the film:

"Hero of Our Time” (2009), tells the story of a child soldier in a fictional and unmentioned country. In it, the fictional sequences are combined with video games, a miniature model city, an operatic aria, documentary images from the internet, and footage of the location where the fictional sequences were shot, which happens to be the site of a residential school in Mission BC. This varied and layered approach attempts to turn the well-meaning documentary about unspeakable violence happening somewhere else in the “third-world” on its head." 1 

The film can be viewed at this link
https://vimeopro.com/matildaaslizadeh/matilda-aslizadeh/video/69898719

During our son's emotional death scene I inhaled a mosquito. 

The mosquitos were so bad that day.
The actors were being bitten so many times that day because crew members had to stop waving them off while the cameras were running.

If memory serves correctly Reace had more than 50 bites that day.

BUT back to my inhaled mosquito ... there are times over the past many years I have seriously pondered what exactly that mosquito is doing in my lungs.

I hope when he thinks about his acting years he remembers the fun & that his parents supported him in pursuing his dreams.

Our oldest had a fan club that included his parents!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

Footnotes:

1  An Interview with Designer of Genocide Monument in Vancouver. Saghdejian, Karin. Armenian Weekly. Originally published May 7th 2014. Retrieved May 15th from
https://armenianweekly.com/2014/05/07/interview-designer-genocide-monument-vancouver/

Sources:

An Interview with Designer of Genocide Monument in Vancouver. Saghdejian, Karin. Armenian Weekly. Originally published May 7th 2014. Retrieved May 15th from
https://armenianweekly.com/2014/05/07/interview-designer-genocide-monument-vancouver/

Dresser Child 1 Voice. Reace Buchner. IMDB. Retrieved May 15th from
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2469297/?ref_=tt_cst_t_1

Dresser Child 2 Voice. Brayden Buchner. IMDB. Retrieved May 15th from
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5266404/?ref_=tt_cst_t

Hero Of Our Time 2008. Aslizadeh, Matilda. Retrieved May 15th from
https://vimeopro.com/matildaaslizadeh/matilda-aslizadeh/video/69898719

Matilda Aslizadeh: Child Soldiers, Born and Made. Canadian Art. Originally published May 29th 2008. Retrieved May 15th from
https://canadianart.ca/features/matilda-aslizadeh/

Shadows. Director & Writer: Shawn Swankey. IMDB. Retrieved May 15th from
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2288015/?ref_=ttfc_ov_bk

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Childhood Treasures ~ A Painted Rock

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 24 (ARTISTIC)

This is week 5 of my blogging style switch

For the next several weeks I will post a photo and a brief description. 

This new style of posting is due to CMC Arthroplasty surgery on my left thumb. 

I will continue with this style until my thumb has sufficiently recovered.

~

This rock was painted by our youngest son when he was small.

It has lived outside in the garden for many years, and makes me smile every time I look at it.

Precious memories!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

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Links:

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Still Best Friends ~ 33 Years Later

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 23 (WEDDING BELLS)

This is week 4 of my blogging style switch

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This new style of posting is due to CMC Arthroplasty surgery on my left thumb. 

I will continue with this style until my thumb has sufficiently recovered.

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33 years ago we met, 31 years ago we were married.

Still best friends.

Looking back at where our story began!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

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Links:

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The Buchner Family ~ All together

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 22 (REUNION)

This is week 3 of my blogging style switch

For the next several weeks I will post a photo and a brief description. 

This new style of posting is due to CMC Arthroplasty surgery on my left thumb. 

I will continue with this style until my thumb has sufficiently recovered.

~

I'm not sure what the occasion was OR what year this photo was taken - BUT I love  this photo of Lyle & Nina Buchner with their 5 children.

Chris' father, Ron, back row 2nd from left

Father:

Ronald Clare (Ron) Buchner 

B: 24 Jul 1946 Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada

D: 6 Feb 2021 Puerto Vallarta Hospital, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico

Grandparents:

Lyle Clare Buchner 

B: 7 Sep 1926 Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada

D: 29 Jan 2023 Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada

&

Nina Merle Vannatter 

B: 18 JAN 1926 Houghton Township, Ontario, Canada

D: 5 SEP 2002 Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada

Seeing the family ALL together!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

Find A Grave:

Lyle Clare Buchner. Retrieved May 28th 2025 from
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/262889479/lyle-clare-buchner

Nina Merle (nee Vannatter) Buchner.  Retrieved May 28th 2025 from
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126361561/nina-merle-buchner

Ronald Clare (Ron) Buchner. Retrieved May 28th 2025 from
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/262908688/ronald-clare-buchner

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The Hero Returns ~ My Dad In His Uniform

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 21 (MILITARY)

This is week 2 of my blogging style switch

For the next several weeks I will post a photo and a brief description. 

This new style of posting is due to CMC Arthroplasty surgery on my left thumb. 

I will continue with this style until my thumb has sufficiently recovered.

~

This is one of my favourite photos from my childhood.

Dad is wearing his uniform so he just got home from work.

My brother & I are wearing our housecoats so it's morning.

Odds are very good he just got home from some extended military maneuver somewhere in the world.

During our childhood he was often gone for weeks, sometimes months, at a time.

Given my age it may have been Jamaica where he brought me a doll that he purchased from the lady he watched make it.

I loved that doll. 

It joined the other international dolls my dad brought home from his many trips around the world.

Sadly my whole doll collection went missing on one of the many moves of my childhood.

When photos evoke a memory!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

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Links:

Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
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The Wheels On The Pram Go Round & Round ~ Remembering My Mom & Her Parents In A Happier Time

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 20 (WHEELS)

This week I shift my style of blogging.

For the next several weeks I will post a photo and a brief description. 

This new style of posting is due to CMC Arthroplasty surgery on my left thumb. 

I will continue with this style until my thumb has sufficiently recovered.

~

This week's photo features a happier time in my maternal family line. 

Jack & Amy with their firstborn child Jacki who would grow up to be my mom.

I chose this photo for 3 reasons:

1. there are wheels on that stroller even if you can't see them
2. this year was my 11th Mother's Day without my mom 
3. this is an important point in the tale of how my story began

Looking at this young family you can almost feel the joy, and aren't they pretty!

This happy moment wouldn't last - Jack & Amy's marriage would dissolve, but for this photo shows they were happy at one time.

Amy Almeda Bayes

Birth 8 NOV 1926 • Hamiota, Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada

Death 23 NOV 2023 • Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
and

John Robert (Jack) Graham

Birth 7 MAR 1930 • Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Death 5 AUG 2011 • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jack & Amy were married on May 28th 1949 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Their divorce was finalized sometime in 1980 after many years of separation and reconciliation (last abt. 1970). 

Seeing this happy moment in time!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

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Links:

Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
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My Happy Place ~ The Library

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 19 (AT THE LIBRARY)

At the library gives me the opportunity to talk about me!

I have worked in public library for the past 15 years.

Prior to that I worked in social services.

When I went for my interview I was asked "Deb, why the library?" as the first get to know you question as they looked at my resume that included nothing like the library.

My answer "When I was young we moved a lot. I was in five schools in three provinces for grade 3, and three schools in two provinces for grade 4. Every time we moved the library was my happy place. I would love to work in my happy place everyday."

They hired me, and honestly after 15 years I still love the library.

BUT it's strange that the library was my happy place because I wasn't actually reading books when I was there.

I was a late reader. 

The peaceful space in a time of chaos in my life was special. 

The library was a magical place for me. 

When I was almost ten I taught myself to read with Archie comic books. 

I struggled with sounding out the words, but the pictures in the comic books made it easier to figure out what was going on. 

I remember the day I laughed, and then realized they were funny.

That was the day comprehension began. 

The first non-comic book I read was a few months later - the Diary of Anne Frank. 

I went from not reading to being a reader.

I remember getting ready for school - drying my hair with one hand, and holding the book with the other. 

I was obsessed with reading.

I often read two or more books at the same time. 

This is still something I do.

A perfect moment in time -
a cat, a tea. a book

When the library is your happy place!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

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Links:

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