Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose lived out each other’s lives, the third known such mistake in Manitoba. Now the premier is reversing a decision to deny responsibility
Richard Beauvais, 68, believed he was Indigenous. Eddy Ambrose, who shares the same birthday, always understood that he was of Ukrainian descent., the recently elected premier of Manitoba, will apologize to Beauvais and Ambrose in the province’s legislature, reversing a decision by the previous government to deny responsibility for the mix-up.
Ambrose, born to a Cree mother and French father, would spend his youth in the farming community of Rembrandt, oblivious to his. The parents who raised him taught him Ukrainian folk songs. They died when he was young and in the years that followed, he was cared for by other family members until he was placed in foster care with a family he came to love immensely.Eddy Ambrose leafs through a photo album featuring pictures of his biological mother and aunt, neither of whom he knew.
Beauvais, who proudly believed he ran the only fully Indigenous fishing crew in the region, stuffed the test in a drawer. “I told the men there was no point banging your head against a brick wall – this government wasn’t going to acknowledge what had happened,” said Gange.In the years since learning about their newfound identities, both men have experienced the expansion of their families. Beauvais’s eldest daughter has grown close to her father’s biological sister.
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