Nearly 85 years ago, at the height of the Great Depression, the Dionne Quintuplets, born two months premature in a tiny farmhouse in Northern Ontario, amazed, then charmed, an international audience.

The Dionne quintuplets – from left, Annette, Marie, Cecile, Yvonne and Emilie, flanked by Monsignor Gustav Schultheiss, left, ... Photos from the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago.

As Sarah Miller painstakingly describes in THE MIRACLE AND TRAGEDY OF THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS (Schwartz & Wade, 320 pp., ... the public’s longing for updates and photos grew.

More than 1,000 people attended the ceremony and had the opportunity to take pictures with Dionne and visit the house, which was brought to North Bay in 1985 and turned into a museum.

In 1943, the quints' parents, regained custody of the girls. They used some of the girls' money to build a grand mansion near the nursery, which was converted into a school for the girls.

For National Sisters Day on Sunday, here’s a look at some of the most famous sisters of the last few centuries. The Dionne quintuplets on their 4th birthday in Callender, Ontario, May 28, 1938.

EDITORIAL/First Reality Show: Dionne Quintuplets captivated the world May 27, 2022 at 10:00 p.m. These days, reality shows are all the rage.

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Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe started spreading the news right after he helped to deliver five identical girls in a farmhouse in Corbeil, Canada, on the morning of May 28, 1934. First, he ran into the girls&… ...