Province pays two men switched at birth in 1955 at Arborg hospital $250K apiece
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Two men who were switched at birth at an Arborg hospital in 1955 have each received $250,000 in compensation from the province.
The payments to Richard Beauvais and Edward Ambrose were reported in the public accounts for the 2025-26 fiscal year released Monday.
In 2024, they received a formal apology on behalf of the provincial government from Premier Wab Kinew for the Manitoba government’s failure to protect and care for them.
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Edward Ambrose (left) and Richard Beauvais listen to Premier Wab Kinew’s apology in the Manitoba Legislative Building in 2024 for being switched at birth.
Beauvais and Ambrose were sent home from hospital with the wrong families and the switch was not discovered until a few years ago, when Beauvais took an at-home DNA ancestry test.
“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,” their lawyer Bill Gange said in a prepared statement.
