Photo: Quintuplets Museum North Bay

This museum in North Bay, Ontario in Canada is where you can learn more about the Dionne quintuplets.

Back on May 28th, 1934 the world was fascinated by the birth of the Dionne quintuplets and over seventy years later you can tour the museum in their honor in North Bay, Ontario. As a group, all five babies were a mere 13 pounds 5 ounces at birth and the first month of their lives was spent in incubators.There was a very slim chance of even given birth to quintuplets and an even smaller one that they would all make it to grow up. They were taken from their family by the Ontario Government once it was understood that the quintuplets were out of danger.The Dionne quintuplets were a huge tourist attraction for North Bay, Ontario as well as helping out people in dire need of work during the depression. When the Dionne quintuplets grew older, they were returned to their parents and become very shy teenagers. After two deaths in 1954 and 1970, the remaining three of the quintuplets decided to regroup and create a book about themselves. ... continue below the picture...

... Today this museum is open to the public where you will find many displays of items that were needed to raise the quintuplets and the things they used as they were growing.Dionne Quints Museum in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, North America.