On the shores of Lake Superior, in the tiny fishing village of Port Coldwell the youngest child of Harvey and Mary Cress came into the world on Oct 16, 1951. In Ted’s mothers handwritten pages, she describes Port Coldwell as a “finger shaped fjord that juts abruptly into rugged rock – one of the most picturesque and natural harbours along the Superior shore.” As beautiful as the setting was, she also described Coldwell as “eking out an existence in an unsympathetic environment.” It wasn’t an easy life and hard work came early to Ted. From hauling buckets of water along the CP tracks to stoking fires at the fishing camp in Onaman Lake, he learned the value of a day’s work.