The remaining three shared the final instalment of the much-depleted trust fund in 1979. Five years later Marie died in February 1970 from what was apparently a blood clot in the brain (the cause of death is uncertain). The four survivors told their own often bitter story in Emilie, an epileptic, entered a convent and died in August 1954 during a seizure. Three of the quintuplets - Annette, Cecile and Marie - married but later divorced. Eventually the quintuplets moved to Montréal. A reunion with the family in November 1943 was not successful.
Dozens of commercial endorsements swelled their trust fund to nearly $1 million. Hollywood fictionalized their story in three movies in the 1930s. Three million people trekked to "Quintland" to watch the babies at play behind a one-way screen. In the interval, they became the country's biggest tourist attraction and a $500 million asset to the province.
Oliva Dionne fought a nine-year battle to regain them.
Credit: Library and Archives Canada/PA-122616.įearing private exploitation, the Ontario government removed them from their parents and placed them in a specially built hospital under the care of Dr Allan Roy Dafoe, who had delivered them. The Dionne Quintuplets with their parents, nurse and guardian, 1939.
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