Manitoba men switched at birth receive $250,000 settlements from province
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How do you measure growing up in the wrong family?
Well, in the case of two Manitoba men who didn’t find out they’d been switched at birth until reaching their late 60s, they were each paid $250,000 by the province for their troubles, according to CTV.
Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais, who were born on the same day in 1955 in Arborg, Man., but went home with the opposite parents, got the cash, according to a recent financial information disclosure for the 2025-26 fiscal year released by the Manitoba government.
“What happened was a miscarriage of justice,” provincial Justice Minister Matt Wiebe said in a statement. “No one can give them back the years that were lost, but we hope the settlement brings some closure.”
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Beauvais raised Metis, Ambrose raised Ukrainian
Beauvais was raised near Lake Manitoba in a Metis community and was a residential school survivor who was removed from his home during the Sixties Scoop, reported the CBC, but found out in 2022 via a test with an at-home ancestry kit that he was actually of Ukrainian and Jewish descent, CTV reported.
Ambrose, meanwhile, was raised in a Ukrainian household on a farm in Rembrandt, Man., about 25 km north of Gimli, according to the CBC, and only became a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation in 2024 after learning of his heritage, reported CTV.
Premier Wab Kinew formally apologized to both men in the Manitoba legislature in 2024.
“Mr. Ambrose and Mr. Beauvais are grateful to the provincial government for the public apology they received from Premier Kinew and for the resolution of their claims for financial compensation,” Bill Gange, a lawyer representing both men, told CBC in a statement.