2024-03-26 05:36:53
Two men were held in the wrong arms in the hospital after they were born, and their lives changed forever. (Picture/reproduced from BBC)
A DNA test turned the world of two Canadian men upside down, allowing them to discover that they had accidentally swapped lives with another person nearly 70 years ago. Years later, the two men finally received a formal apology from the local government.
Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose, 68, were born on the same day in 1955 in the same hospital in the small town of Arborg, Manitoba, Canada. Due to a major mistake in the hospital, they were taken home by each other’s biological parents and began to embark on a completely different life trajectory.
Beauvais’ father died when he was three, and his mother struggled with the loss of a husband, leaving him trying to take care of his younger siblings from the age of three. He later attended a day school for Aboriginal children and was forcibly removed from his family and placed in foster care in the 1960s as part of an Aboriginal assimilation policy. Ambrose, meanwhile, grew up on a farm in Manitoba with a loving and caring Ukrainian family.
Later, Beauvais settled in Sechelt, a coastal town in British Columbia, Canada. He thought he was a native of Canada’s indigenous Métis people until he took a DNA test in 2020. Discovered that he was of mixed Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish and Polish ancestry.
At about the same time, nearly 2,400 kilometers away, Ambrose and his sister who grew up in the same Ukrainian family also conducted a DNA test. The results showed that the two had no blood relationship – Mr. Beauvais thousands of miles away was her. biological brother.
The results of the DNA test surprised the two men. Through their lawyers, they asked Manitoba to apologize and provide financial compensation. Initially, the Manitoba government claimed that the hospital where the error occurred was under municipal jurisdiction and therefore not responsible. However, on March 21 this year, Manitoba’s new governor, Wab Kinew, publicly apologized to the two people at the provincial legislative assembly. There is no word yet on whether the two will receive financial compensation, but their attorney said he will continue to fight for it.
Interestingly, Beauvais’ and Ambrose’s lives overlapped slightly over the years. According to the “BBC” report, Ginnew claimed to the media that Ambrose once invited a girl from a nearby town to join his baseball team during recess when he was a child, not knowing that the girl was actually his biological sister. When Beauvais was a teenager, he visited a coast because of his love for fishing. He didn’t know that the girl throwing the pole next to him was his biological sister.
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