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It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our Matriarch, Nancy Patricia (Dick) Blanchard on January 1, 2021 at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, with her family by her side. Nancy was born on November 8, 1946, in Fort William, Ontario to William and Louise Dick. She was raised first in Macdiarmid, Ontario where her father, a WWII self-enlisted military veteran, was involved in the commercial fisheries. For a short time of Nancy's childhood, she was raised in St. Joseph Residential School which she remembers mostly with fond memories. At age 6 the family moved to P...

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 t...