Manitoba compensates 2 men switched at birth in 1955 with $250K each in settlement

Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais were awarded $250,000 each in the 2025-26 fiscal year, according to financial disclosure documents released by the province this week.

"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 News in a statement.

Ambrose declined to comment when reached by phone Tuesday.

What happened to the two men was "a miscarriage of justice," provincial Justice Minister Matt Wiebe said in a written statement.

"No one can give them back the years that were lost but we hope the settlement brings some closure," he said in the statement.

The men were sent home with the wrong families in 1955 after being born at a hospital in Arborg, about 115 kilometres north of Winnipeg.