What is Dionne Quintuplets?
[[File:Dionnequints1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Dionne Quintuplets with [[Premier of Ontario|Ontario premier]] [[Mitchell Hepburn]] in 1968]] The '''Dionne Quintuplets''' were the first quintuplets (five babies born at the same time from the same mother) to survive after being born. They were born in [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] on May 28, 1934 to Elzire and Oliva Dionne. They were: *Annette *Cecile *Emilie (died on August 6, 1954 from an [[epilepsy]] [[seizure]]) *Marie (died on February 27, 1970 from a [[blood]] [[clot]] in the [[brain]]) *Yvonne (died on June 23, 2001 from [[cancer]]) The babies were delivered by Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who later was given custody of the girls by the Canadian government and the Ontario government housed them in a special [[theme park]]-like [[area]], just across the street from the house their parents and 6 other siblings lived in. At one time 6,000 people visited '''Quintland''' each day to see the sisters, they also had [[doll]]s made out of them, and appeared in [[commercials]] for products like [[corn]] [[syrup]] and [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] [[oats like oatmeal]]. Then in 1943, the girls' father, Oliva, finally got custody of them again and the girls moved back to live with their real family. Dr. Dafone died soon after that. The girls later claimed their father [[abuse]]d them. In 1998, the surviving sisters [[sued]] the government of [[Ontario]] for being exploited as kids and were [[rewarded]] 4 million Canadian [[dollar]]s. {{biography-stub}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:People from Ontario]]