The Dionnes were a French-speaking farming family with five older children, Ernest (1936-1995), Rose Marie (1928-1995), Therese (b. They lived just outside Corbeil, Ontario, in a farmhouse on unregistered territory. The Dionne family was headed by father Oliva-Edouard (1904-1979) and Elzire Dionne (1909-1986), who married on September 15, 1925. Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia Family: This miracle, plus their baby cuteness, the poverty of their French Canadian parents, and the controversy over their guardianship, made them the top news story of the 1930s. They are the first known quintuplets to survive infancy, and all five of them survived to adulthood. They were born to parents Oliva and Elzire Dionne on May 28, 1934.
Here, Sarah Miller reconstructs their unprecedented upbringing with fresh depth and subtlety, bringing to new light their resilience and the indelible bond of their unique sisterhood.The Dionne quintuplets gained worldwide attention after their birth in Corbeil, Ontario. The Dionne Quintuplets became a more popular attraction than Niagara Falls, ogled through one-way screens by sightseers as they splashed in their wading pool at the center of a tourist hotspot known as Quintland. In an effort to protect them from hucksters and showmen, the Ontario government took custody of the five identical babies, sequestering them in a private, custom-built hospital across the road from their family-and then, in a stunning act of hypocrisy, proceeded to exploit them for the next nine years. Overnight, Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie Dionne mesmerized the globe, defying medical history with every breath they took.
When the Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expected them to live so much as an hour. In this riveting, beyond-belief true story from the author of The Borden Murders, meet the five children who captivated the entire world.
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