the dionne quintuplets

Do Your Remember The Dionne Quintuplets

@marlina (154166)

Canada

May 28, 2017 12:36pm CST

Do Your Remember The Dionne Quintuplets? Today is their birthday as they were born on May 28, 1934. I wasn't born then but later on I remember my Dad buying us a book full of photos of the Dionne Quintuplets. We were mesmerized by them. It was only years later that I learn how the doctor who delivered them and the Ontario government exploited them. It is so sad to read about this now. I have included 2 links for videos on YouTube. The second one made me cry. I hope that you will take the time to watch them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caBXqaLgf8A

The Dionne Quintuplets

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the story of the world's first and only ever recorded identical quintuplets! *okay due to the many correctunal comments, i want to say sorry for the info tha...

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@garymarsh6 (23393)

• United Kingdom

28 May 17

OH my goodness gracious me. I had a vague memory about them but that needed refreshing. How tragic that they were firstly put on show as if they were in a circus then finally returned to their parents and sexually abused. How horrific those poor kids. No wonder you cried. It was awful for them.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

On top of all that they were French-Canadians and so am I.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

@garymarsh6 Very sickening when people do that sort of thing.

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@garymarsh6 (23393)

• United Kingdom

28 May 17

@marlina It is sickening Marlina. I can not understand how anyone could sexually assault a child robbing them of their innocence. It rips my heart out. The sad thing is they do not see it is wrong! Even with little babies. Of course its wrong its horrible!

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@Juliaacv (48447)

• Canada

28 May 17

All I ever knew about the Dionne babies is that they were quints, and I know this because my Gramma used to keep teaspoons in a glass sundae-shaped jar on her table and there was a spoon with a baby on it, and I can remember being told by my Gramma that it was one of those quintuplets.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

Yes, I have seen pictures of those spoons.

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@BelleStarr (61047)

• United States

28 May 17

My mother talked about the Dionne quints, it was terrible what happened to them during most of their life.

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@BelleStarr (61047)

• United States

28 May 17

@marlina They were treated pretty abusively too!!

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

@BelleStarr Yes, they were.

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

There was a lot of words said about The Dionne Quints. Lots of people made money on their backs.

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@PainsOnSlate (21854)

• Canada

29 May 17

Thanks for sharing that video. What a horrible life they had first being taken away from the family and then being abused by the parents. I don't remember much about them, I guess because they were before my time but I do remember seeing them in magazines and on the news once and a while. That Doctor who used them for money should have gone to jail.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

29 May 17

I can remember them from photos only when I was a kid.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

10 Jun 17

@PainsOnSlate,Re:the Dionne Quintuplets:the government did it too.

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@ridingbet (66857)

• Philippines

30 May 17

i haven't heard of these kids. (well, maybe because we were not born in the same year). but may i ask how were they exploited by the Ontario government?

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

30 May 17

Yes , the Ontario government took them aways from their parents and the Dr. who delivered them made a circus out of the whole thing and made millions with tourism and souvenirs.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

31 May 17

@ridingbet No, the kids were normal. The government and the doctor did it for greed.

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@ridingbet (66857)

• Philippines

1 Jun 17

@marlina i already watched the link. and yes, they are beautiful quintuplets. i just don't understand why the government and the doctor abused them, their family.

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@responsiveme (22926)

• India

28 May 17

I read this story and learnt about them.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

Those poor girl's life was totally different of what could have been.

@TiarasOceanView (70035)

• United States

28 May 17

That is absolutely horrific..you know I have a book by a man who lives in Canada and says he was also experimented on..omg it is frightening. Dang them for doing these horrible crimes to people.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

Shameful people.

@PatZAnthony (14752)

• Charlotte, North Carolina

28 May 17

Someone in our family mentioned them during our childhood and it seems there was a documentary about things that happened to the family members. Amazing what humans will do at the expense of other humans, isn't it @Marlina

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

29 May 17

Some people will do anything for a "buck".

@LadyDuck (458233)

• Switzerland

29 May 17

I do not remember the Dionne, but I have watched the video. What a terrible and sad story. They were prisoners of the doctor and never got a cent from the money he made exploiting them. Poor girls, that was not a life.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

29 May 17

Those 5 sisters got taken advantage to the max. They did not have a happy life. I believe that 2 of them are still alive and live in Montreal.

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@LadyDuck (458233)

• Switzerland

29 May 17

@marlina Yes, this is what I also understood, that two are still living together in Montreal.

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@amadeo (111948)

• United States

28 May 17

this is my vintage.Yes I remember them very well.But lost track of them.How many are left?

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

If I am not mistaken there are only 2 sisters remaining.

@Marilynda1225 (79769)

• United States

29 May 17

I vaguely remember hearing about them

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

29 May 17

Did you ever see a movie about them?

@NJChicaa (116007)

• United States

28 May 17

My grandmother told me about them. I think she had a paper doll book about them.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

I believe that as the "profiteers" made all kinds of goods and sold them for profits on the back of the Dionne quintuplets. Shameful!

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@JohnRoberts (109857)

• Los Angeles, California

28 May 17

Yes I do. There was an old movie about them back in the day and a TV movie some years ago.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

28 May 17

Glad that you remember them.

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@JustBhem (70555)

• Davao, Philippines

31 May 17

How many are quintuplets?

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

31 May 17

Quintuplets are five babies.

@Nawsheen (28644)

• Mauritius

29 May 17

I never knew about them. Today i learnt something. So sad about the exploitation

. Thank you for sharing

@jaboUK (64361)

• United Kingdom

30 May 17

They were really treated badly, how awful.

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@Tampa_girl7 (48997)

• United States

29 May 17

Thanks for the link. I will be sure to watch it.

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@just4him (306354)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

29 May 17

That must have been heartbreaking for their parents to have them taken away from them. It is tragic the way they were exploited like that. I had never heard of them before now.

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@HazySue (39264)

• Gouverneur, New York

30 May 17

I do remember them and the exploitation of them. I will defiantly take the time to view the you tubes.

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@ShifaLk (17817)

• India

29 May 17

Quintuplets?? Aww how cute

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