A possibility, yes.
If true, his father would have been stateless until the time he naturalized in another country.
Do you know if Canada, at the time Ted was born, made you a citizen simply because you are born in Canada?
As far as I know the US is one if not the only country that makes you a citizen simply by being born in the country.
Even in this country it was never intended, it was the black robs that made it so.