Ted Nolan's hands can still feel the pail of water, the heft and weight, the splashes over the sides. He would use the outdoor pump -- they didn't have indoor plumbing at the time -- to fill the pail, which he would then lug carefully to the back of his house where he'd packed down some snow with his feet. He would pour out the water.

Then he would do it again.

The outdoor rink in his community, Garden River First Nation, outside of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, always seemed to be full of adults, not enough room for the kids. He figured it wouldn't be all that hard to build his own.

"Now that I think [about it], it must have took me forever because I was only 10 years old, 11 years old doing it," Nolan said. "And I bet you by the time I got around the corner of my house maybe half the wat

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