Edward Ambrose remembers wanting to be just like his father—a mentor, a hard worker, a proud family man.
More than sixty years later, Ambrose would receive shocking news. That man was not his father.
“When you come from a loving family and something like this comes, it destroys you,” Ambrose says from his home in Winnipeg.
Halfway across the country in Sechelt, B.C., Richard Beauvais, too, had his sense of identity upended. After facing racism and being sent to a residential day school, Beauvais would learn he was not Indigenous.
The 67-year-old men had been switched at birth.
Ambrose and Beauvais were born June 28, 1955, at a hospital in the community of Arborg, north of Winnipeg. Somehow, they went home with each other’s families….