Siblings separated by ’60s Scoop meet for 1st time: ‘The heart is just bursting’

Siblings Joseph Lambert and Donna Morin wait anxiously at Winnipeg Richardson International Airport for a sister they’ve never met. “I’ll probably just be crying, it’s hard to say what’s going to happen because I’m in shock still,” said Morin. They and their sister, Melody Roberts, are ’60s Scoop survivors, and were separated from their family at a young age. From the 1950s to the 1980s, government policy allowed First Nations, Metis and Inuit children to be removed from their families and adopted by non-Indigenous parents. When Roberts finally landed, travelling in from Oregon, the three embr…