52 years ago, Edmonton police officer Gordon Cameron stopped a speeding car to find there was a woman in labour in the back seat.

While the father ran to the nearest hospital for help, Cameron assisted in the delivery of the baby. He often wondered about the baby, but since it was brought to the hospital that day, he had heard nothing more of her.

“The years went by and I often wondered how the baby was,” Cameron said to CBC News.

“I never really knew and I wanted to know where it was, what it was, who it was.”

It may have taken over half a century, but last week he finally reunited with Terri Ward, who now works as a nurse in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Cameron was in the city to attend the funeral of three police officers who were shot by a gunman on June 7. The walking and standing proved exhausting to him, and so he was briefly hospitalised. 

When travelling to Moncton, he hoped he could make contact with Ward - and that was exactly what happened, as she visited the ward to take care of him.

“I was able to be with him as he was with me 52 years ago,” said Ward. “It gave us extra time to really get to know each other, it was quite nice.”

Cameron was touched by the meeting saying:

“To think, 52 years later, here we are now. From that little incident [the decision I made] to chase the car I caught speeding and never give them a ticket. There’s no doubt about that, we’re family.”