Good to be back’: Sixties Scoop survivor raised in U.S. reunites with siblings in Winnipeg – CBC

May 19, 2026

Melody Roberts, 66, only learned she was taken from family after outreach worker tracked her down

Siblings separated in the Sixties Scoop have reunited after one of them — raised in the U.S. knowing nothing about her family — returned to Manitoba.

Melody Roberts embraced biological siblings Joe Lambert and Donna Morin during their first in-person meeting at Winnipeg’s Richardson Airport Sunday evening.

“It’s good to be back,” the 66-year-old from Eugene, Ore., said as a welcoming party greeted her with signs, singing and drumming at the airport’s arrivals area.

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