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  Dionne Quintuplets
The Dionne Quintuplets (courtesy Library and Archives Canada).
Fearing private exploitation, the Ontario government removed them from their parents and placed them in a specially built hospital under the care of Dr Allan Roy DAFOE, who had delivered them.
In the interval, they became the country's biggest tourist attraction and a $500 million asset to the province.
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 Dionne Quintuplets
On May 28, 1934, at a farmhouse at Corbeil in northern Ontario, five identical baby girls were born to a French-Canadian couple, Oliva and Elzire Dionne.
They were the world's first quintuplets to survive, though they were tiny and very frail at first.
When the five came of age, however, most of their share of the trust - once estimated at $15 million - had been spent on the upkeep of Quintland.
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 Q is for the Dionne Quintuplets
is for Quintuplets, as in "The Dionne Quintuplets", the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy.
Born in 1934 to Elzire and Oliva Dionne in a small town in Ontario, the Dionne Quintuplets were taken from their family and cared for by the government.
Later, The Dionne Quintuplets went their separate ways to lead separate lives, but the surviving sisters have now reunited and written a book about their experiences.
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 CNN - The Dionne quintuplets: A Depression-era freak show - November 19, 1997
(CNN) -- The Dionne quintuplets were the miracle babies of their time -- a bright story in the depth of the Depression.
Born May 28, 1934, to poor, French-speaking, Catholic parents, the Dionne quints were at least two months premature, and together they weighed less than 14 pounds.
Film footage of the young quintuplets shows five pretty girls with dark hair and dark eyes -- and a crush of tourists waiting in line to see them.
www.cnn.com /US/9711/19/dionne.quints   (551 words)

  
 Dionne Quintuplets
Soon We’ll be Three Years Old, The Five Dionne Quintuplets’ Book, exclusive and authorized edition, by Whitman Publishing co, copyright 1936.
Dionne Quintuplets, “Going on Three”, over 50 latest pictures and the complete story of their progress, by Dell Publishing Co, circa 1936.
The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets, exclusive and copyrighted NEA photographs, circa 1934 by Whitman Publishing Co.
www.hersmine.com /Doll_books_Dionne.htm   (75 words)

  
 Birth of the Dionne quintuplets - "On This Day" - CBC Archives
On May 28, 1934, five identical girls are born to Elzire and Oliva Dionne in Callander, Ontario.
The five sisters - Annette, Cecile, Yvonne, Marie and Émilie - become known as the Dionne quintuplets, and together they weigh less than 6.5 kilograms.
• The odds of giving birth to identical quintuplets without the aid of reproductive technology are one in 57 million.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-69-169-983-20/that_was_then/life_society/dionne_quintuplets_born   (419 words)

  
 Dionne Quintuplets
Dionne quintuplets were born in Canada on May 28, 1934.
Quintuplets & Dr. Defoe, Signed Allan Roy Defoe, 1938
Quintuplets In Basket, 1936, 8 x 10 In.
www.kovels.com /priceguide/kovels_dionnequintuplets   (630 words)

  
 Dionne Quintuplets - Famous Canadians
The Dionne Quintuplets (born on May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy.
Perhaps to resolve the issue, the Dionne Quintuplets Museum is currently located halfway between the two towns, in North Bay.
After a nine-year court fight between the government and their father, the quintuplets were returned to their family in 1943.
www.softlandings.com /canada/famous-canadians/Dionne-Quintuplets.php   (536 words)

  
  Dionne quintuplets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dionne Quintuplets (born on May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy.
Perhaps to resolve the issue, the Dionne Quintuplets Museum is currently located in the nearest city, North Bay.
After a nine-year court fight between the government and their father, the quintuplets were returned to their family in 1943 to a government-built yellow brick, 20-room mansion that would house the entire Dionne family.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionne_Quintuplets   (565 words)

  
 Dionne Quintuplets - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Dionne Quintuplets - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Dionne Quintuplets (born 1934), five Canadian girls, Cécile, Yvonne, Annette, Émilie, and Marie, born in Corbeil, Ontario, to Oliva and Elzire...
Quintuplet, in music, a group of five notes to be played (usually) in the time of four.
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 Dionne Quintuplets St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie Dionne are the first monozygotic--all from one fertilized ovum--quintuplets known to have survived to adulthood.
Nevertheless, the significance of the Dionne Quintuplets rests not in their place in medical history, but as examples of exploitation and publicity.
Although not the riches given to the Dionne family, the lifetime of free diapers, college scholarships, and use of a mini-van relieved some of the stresses on the newly enlarged families.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200320   (418 words)

  
 DIONNE QUINTUPLETS
The Dionne Quintuplets (born on May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy.
Perhaps to resolve the issue, the Dionne Quintuplets Museum is currently located in the nearest city, North Bay.
After a nine-year court fight between the government and their father, the quintuplets were returned to their family in 1943 to a government-built yellow brick, 20-room mansion that would house the entire Dionne family.
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 THE MILLION DOLLAR BABIES AND THE MEDIA: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE... / Mary Vipond
This paper analyses the different media representations of the Dionne Quintuplets in the 1930s and the1990s, primarily it focuses in the Million Dollar Babies, a jointly produced movie made-for-Tv timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the birth of the Dionne quintuplets.
The quintuplets were born early in the morning of May 28, 1934 to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, on their farm near Corbeil, about nine miles from North Bay, Ontario, an area of mixed English-and French-Canadian settlement.
The birth of the Dionne quintuplets was a huge human interest story in the Depression, and the media of the day made as much as they could of it.
revista.amec.com.mx /num_3_2002/Vipond_Mary.htm   (4327 words)

  
 Dionne Quintuplets - Famous Canadians
The Dionne Quintuplets (born on May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy.
Perhaps to resolve the issue, the Dionne Quintuplets Museum is currently located halfway between the two towns, in North Bay.
After a nine-year court fight between the government and their father, the quintuplets were returned to their family in 1943.
canada.softlandings.com /famous-canadians/Dionne-Quintuplets.php   (536 words)

  
 Dionne Quints Ahnentafel
Antoine DIONNE was baptized on 27 Dec 1738 Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere.
Antoine DIONNE was born circa 14 Jan 1707 Riviere-Ouelle.
Jean DIONNE was born on 8 Mar 1670 Ste-Famille.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/lwjones/dionne.htm   (3058 words)

  
 Free-Essays.us - Dionne Quintuplets
In 1935 the Dionne quintuplets were taken away from their family and became wards of the Government of Ontario.
After the quintuplets became wards of the Ontario government, they were put on display in what they called Quintland, where people could come and see the quintuplets.
The Dionne sisters were supposed to inherit all the money that they had made during their lives at the age of twenty-one, but when their twenty-first birthday came along there was only $800 000 left.
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 Travel: Curiosity and the quints
The Dionne quintuplets sparked a cottage industry for tourists in Ontario, but the girls' birthplace, now a museum of their history, was never to be a genuine home.
Although the birth of quintuplets is estimated at 1 in 57-million, the use of fertility drugs has made it slightly more common now.
But the Dionnes' birth and survival were such symbols of hope in those crushing times that they galvanized the public interest.
www.sptimes.com /2002/07/28/news_pf/Travel/Curiosity_and_the_qui.shtml   (1351 words)

  
 The 1930's
Dionne Quints - Here you will find digitized historical information about the Dionne Quintuplets,including a timeline, digital collections, and information about the museums and libraries owning the original artifacts.
The Dionne Quintuplets - The Dionne Quintuplets: Annette (1934-), Cecile (1934-), Emilie (1934-1954), Marie (1934-1970), and Yvonne (1934-2001): the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy.
The Dionne quintuplets: A Depression-era freak show - The Dionne quintuplets were the miracle babies of their time -- a bright story in the depth of the Depression.
www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listthe1920dh.html   (917 words)

  
 Dionne QUINTUPLETS : astrology and horoscope, planets and Map of the Heavens with Astrotheme
Astrology for "Dionne QUINTUPLETS", planets and interactive birth charts for thousands of famous people: the French version of the birth chart for "Dionne QUINTUPLETS" can be found at the address Astrology, Horoscope, Planets and Birth Chart for "Dionne QUINTUPLETS".
Dionne, the predominance of planets in the Northern hemisphere prompts you to reflect and imagine rather than show your actions whilst you avoid public recognition.
Dionne, the North-eastern quadrant, consisting of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses, is the most pronounced in your chart : this sector brings out personal assertion and material security to the detriment of others' perception and the risky adventure of self-transformation.
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 Antique Reproduction Dolls - Dionne Quintuplets   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Dionne Quintuplets captured the hearts of millions when they were born.
Because quintuplets are so rare, they were a novelty, put on display by the Canadian government.
Each of the quintuplets had their own color that they wore in order to assist the public in identifying them, so the dolls are dressed in the customary colors, yellow, pink, green, lavender and blue.
www.sowatzka.com /antiqueREPRO/quints.htm   (148 words)

  
 LET'S TALK ANTIQUES
I had heard of the Dionne Quints, but until Terry Brancacio came into the shop with a set of silver-plated Dionne collector spoons, I knew very little about their lives.
News of their miraculous survival, along with the story of their family’s impoverished background, made the Dionne Quints the sensation of Depression-era Canada and, soon, of the world.
One final note about the Dionne Quintuplets: Oliva Dionne won a nine-year battle to regain custody of his daughters in 1943.
www.columbiatribune.com /2005/Sep/20050915Life051.asp   (627 words)

  
 Dionne Quintuplets
the identical quintuplets were taken away from their parents and made wards of the Ontario government, under Dr. Dafoe's supervision
a made-for-television movie about the quintuplets, shown by CBS in 1994, gave a negative depiction of Dr. Dafoe who limited their contact with their parents, and took control of their lives
Annette Dionne, when interviewed, showed little rancor toward Dr. Dafoe, saying life in the nursery where they were kept was relatively pleasant
particle.physics.ucdavis.edu /bios/Dionne.html   (469 words)

  
 CBC: Life And Times
But the price paid by the Dionne quintuplets was a stolen childhood and adult lives filled with turmoil and unhappiness.
For the first time, the three surviving sisters - Cecile, Yvonne and Annette - take you on a private journey through their very public lives.
Speech by Allan Roy Defoe, the doctor who delivered the quintuplets (the History Channel)
www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/dionne.html   (224 words)

  
 ADVICE FROM THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS - TIME
Before the McCaugheys, the most famous multiple births--by far--were the Dionne quintuplets, five identical girls born to a French-Canadian farmer and his wife in Corbeil, Ont., on May 28, 1934.
The media got wind of the event when the father called the local newspaper to ask whether a birth announcement for five babies would cost the same as one.
Three Hollywood movies were made of their lives; in the midst of the Depression, sales of Dionne dolls outstripped those of Shirley Temple.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,987457,00.html   (498 words)

  
 TWINSTUFF.COM--The History of Higher-Order Multiples   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The world's first and so far only set of verified identical quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, Cecile, Marie, Annette, Emilie and Yvonne Dionne of Ontario, Canada.
Nine years later, with the horrid exploitation of the Dionne Quints still very fresh in the public's minds, another set of quintuplets was quietly born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 15, 1943.
The Diligenti Quintuplets each went their own separate ways and have remained out of the public eye as adults.
www.twinstuff.com /homults.htm   (1731 words)

  
 Robert Dionne Family Tree
I follow the line of Jean-Baptise DIONNE, son of Jean DIONNE and Charlotte (Marie-Charlotte) MIGNOT (MIGNAULT, MIGNEAULT), grandson of Antoine DIONNE, born circa1641 in France and Catherine YVORY (IVORY), born circa 1644 in France.
The quintuplets follow the line of Antoine DIONNE, brother of Jean-Baptiste, son of Jean DIONNE and Charlotte MIGNOT (MIGNAULT, MIGNEAULT), grandson of Antoine DIONNE and Catherine YVORY.
It was somehow changed to DIONNE when Antoine and Catherine emigrated to New France (Quebec) circa 1661.
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 DIONNE: Genealogy Queries   (Site not responding. Last check: )
My birth mom is Ellen Ann Aird (Demuynck) she was born on Nov 4 1939 and past away on Nov. 5 1993 I would be interested in knowing if i have any birth siblings or any other r...
DIONNE : COUTURE : GAUDREAU : I am looking for information on Alfred J. Couture he was born in Quebec and then moved to Mass.
DIONNE search results at Interment.net - Burial records and tombstone inscriptions from thousands of cemeteries across the world.
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00270174   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A sensitive and candid inside account of the struggles of the Dionne quintuplets, from "million-dollar babies" to impoverished adults, and their ultimate triumph in the battle for compensation after years of exploitation.
In addition to the personal struggles the three sisters candidly relate, The Dionnes recounts the stories of their friends, families, lawyers, supporters, and legions of admirers.
Much more than a rags to riches story, The Dionnes is a tale of humanity and courage, of family feuding and family solidarity, and of the long and painful road to justice.
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 Amazon.com: Quintuplets: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dionne Quintuplets, The Were Two Years Old by illustrated thruout Willis Thornton (Paperback - 1936)
Five Dionne Quintuplets Book, The Soon Well Be Three Years Old Exclusive & Authorized Edition by illustrated thruout (Paperback - 1936)
The Dionne legend;: Quintuplets in captivity by Lillian Barker (Unknown Binding - 1951)
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