Two Canadians have been formally apologized by the State after discovering they were raised in the “wrong” families as a random DNA test revealed.

Richard Beauvais, from the coastal town of Sechelt, British Columbia, grew up believing he was aboriginal all his life. But the test he took showed he had a mixture of Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish Ashkenazi ancestry.

Around the same time and almost 2,400 kilometers away, Eddie’s sister Ambrose from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who was raised in a Ukrainian family, also took a DNA test and discovered she was not related to Eddie.

Instead, Beauvais was her biological brother.

This led to a life-changing revelation: the two men, Richard Bove and Eddie Ambrose, were born on the same day in the same hospital in the small town of Arborg, Manitoba, in 1955, but were switched at birth and given to one biological parent the other ‘s.

Almost 70 years later, Beauvais and Ambros received an official apology in person from the governor of Manitoba.

“I wake up today to offer an apology that is long overdue, for actions that hurt two children, two sets of parents and two families over multiple generations,” the governor told the Manitoba Legislative Assembly.

In their early years, the two had led completely different lives, their lawyer Bill Gange told the BBC as Beauvais grew up with an indigenous people in Canada while Ambros grew up on a farm in rural Manitoba, “with a very loving and very supportive family of Ukrainian origin”.

In fact, it was later revealed that as a child, Ambrose asked a girl to be on the baseball team at recess, not knowing that she was actually his biological sister.

At the same time, when Beauvais was a teenager, his love of fishing brought him to the same shore as his biological sister, who would cast her rod next to him without the two knowing their relationship.