![]() ![]() ![]() When a set of five babies was born to a woman in Corbeil, Ontario, the world had seen nothing like it. Twins were miraculous enough, especially if they survived. Today, we live in an age of in vitro fertilization and fertility clinics, but in the 1930s, it was very, very different. More than three million people (spending a collective total of around $500 million) came to see them, and by the time they were released back into the custody of their parents, not only did those parents not really seem to want them, but they grew up sad, lonely, and poorly adjusted to life in the real world. Born at a time when giving birth to five babies at one time was unheard of, the government took the girls from their parents and raised them until they were nine years old. ![]() In the 1930s, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Canada was the nursery of the Dionne quintuplets. So many around us were unable to resist the temptation.” - The Dionne Quintuplets, writing in “We Were Five” In A Nutshell ![]()
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