Josue Angelino Icart recovered so quickly from his injuries that a planned surgery was no longer necessary. (CBC)

A three-month-old boy rescued three days after the massive earthquake in Haiti killed his mother has begun a new life in Canada.

Josue Angelino Icart arrived in Ottawa last week after his father, Garry Icart, made a difficult journey to Haiti to rescue him.

"I feel ready to raise him because I asked God to give me this child," Icart told CBC News in an interview in French upon his return. "For me to go down there and be able to bring him back — it's truly a miracle."

Icart works as a driver for the Ivory Coast Embassy in Ottawa, but had a house in Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, where his girlfriend Jesula Jean lived. He had never had the chance to see the baby before the house collapsed in the Jan. 12 earthquake. Jean and six other people in the house were killed.

The baby was injured and survived three days trapped in an empty water tank before he could be rescued. Since then, he has healed so quickly that a planned operation proved unnecessary.

After Icart heard news that his baby was alive, he rushed to Haiti to take his son home.

Caregiver fast-tracked

Canadian immigration officials fast-tracked his visa and also that of Nancy-Valerie Jean, who had been the baby's caregiver since the death of his mother.

Nancy-Valerie Jean (left) was fast-tracked for immigration to Canada because of how the baby had bonded with her. She says she will help raise the child if that's what his father, Garry Icart (right) wants. (CBC)

Jean, the daughter of a woman who cooked for the family, had no link to Canada, but embassy staff saw how the baby had bonded with her and cried when separated from her. They used a special emergency procedure to get her a visa to Canada in just 12 hours.

Icart said Josue is also Nancy-Valerie Jean's baby, because she was the one who worried about him and cared about him in the wake of the earthquake.

"It's the baby who has brought us close now," said Icart, who still politely refers to the young woman as "Mademoiselle Nancy."

Jean, who speaks only Creole, said she's ready to raise the baby as his mother if that's what Icart wants.