Carleena Swire always knew she had a dad.
She knew his name, and knew he had served in the military in Winnipeg.
She even knew he was from Ontario.
She had tried to Google him in the past, but had no success.
It was not until her daughter Cassidy was born that the urge to find him grew stronger.
"That's when it started getting really serious and I thought Ok, you know what, I need to find him, I need to know who he is, who I am," says Swire.
She turned to internet social networking site Facebook to find those answers.
Last month Carleena found a man in Ontario with her dad's last name.
The man turned out to be his brother, who gave Carleena her dad's email.
Two weeks later her dad emailed back.
"I just started crying. I couldn't even read I was in tears thinking, I have had so many rejections, so many dead ends, and finally there it is," she says.
They arranged to meet and that meeting happened on Friday, May 1, 2009, a day neither will forget.
Ron Holmes never knew he had a daughter.
He and Carleena's mother were together for about a year while he was an infantryman in Winnipeg.
They split up and she never told him she was pregnant.
For Ron this has been an emotional journey.
"Every kind of emotion you can imagine from fear to anger to everything, all just come together in one big puddle here," says Holmes.
The two shared photos of Ron the year Carleena was born and baby photos of Carleena.
They will spend the next four days catching up on a lifetime apart.
"We lost 28 years and we're going to make the best of the next 28 years and more," says Holmes.
With a report from CTV's Marni Kagan
