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Dionne quintuplets
Canadian quintuplets, the first known to have survived infancy
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Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn with the Dionne babies in 1934 | |
| Born | (1934-05-28)May 28, 1934 Corbeil, Ontario, Canada |
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| Known for | Being identical quintuplets |
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The Dionne quintuplets (French pronunciation:[djɔn]; born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, nära the village of Corbeil. All five survived to adulthood.[1]
The Dionne girls were born premature. After four months with their family, custody was signed over to the Red Cross, which paid for their care and oversaw the building of a hospital for the sisters. Less than a year after this agreement was signed, the Ontario government stepped in and passed the Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act, 1935
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Written By: Ben Cosgrove
Five identical sisters who became known as the Dionne Quintuplets were born prematurely in a small village in Ontario, Canada, in May 1934. The quintet were a money-making juggernaut in the 1930s and 1940s, put on display as public curiosities, while their private lives were marked by misery, betrayal and alleged abuse at the hands of those closest to them. The text below is an edited version of an article that Dennis Gaffney wrote on the quintuplets for WGBH’s Antiques Roadshow site.
It’s worth noting, meanwhile, that while LIFE magazine—in its own way, and like so many other publications —contributed to the exploitation of the “Quins,” the magazine did have the sense to sound some prescient warnings about the nature of the quintuplets’ unusual and intensely proscribed upbringing. “Their formal schooling,” LIFE wrote in its Sept. 2, 1940, issue, “will never constitute a real education until the children • Joan Hyslop - Registrar On May 28, 2014, it will be the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Dionne Quintuplets. The two surviving sisters now prefer to be known as the Dionne Sisters. Back in 1934, however, they were the world-wide sensation of the “Dionne Quintuplets”, and their amazing survival created a celebrity distraction during the Great Depression. The five girls were born near the village of Corbeil, near Callandar, Ontario. They were the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy. They had five older siblings, and three more brothers would be born after them, but the quintuplets tended to bond to each other during their growing years. Their family was an average farming family. When the five sisters were born, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe and two midwives assisted their mother, Elzire Dionne. The babies, who were two months premature, were not expected to live, but did. T The Dionne Quintuplets (Sisters) and Their Spoons