MEET THE FIRST CANADIAN QUINTUPLETS AND THE WORLD'S FIRST EVER QUINTUPLETS TO HAVE SURVIVED INFANCY, BUT THEIR LIVES WAS A TRAGEDY.

The Dionne identical quintuplets left a mark on the world when they were conceived May 28, 1934, they were believed to be the first ever quintuplets to have survived their infancy. This identical sisters were born in Canada, just outside Callander, Ontario close to a town called Corbeil. They were born into a poor family, during child birth they were two months premature. These quintuplets were kept close to the open stove to keep them warm and breast milk were donated from mothers in the towns and the surrounding towns. After all said and done against all expectations they survived the first week after birth.

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Soon the news about this astonishing quintuplets started to spread far and wide, But their parents the Dionnes could hardly make ends meet combined with the fact that they already had five children before the quintuplets, these awful condition made the government of Ontario remove the quintuplets from the care of their parents.The youngsters were given over to Dr. Dafoe, they were placed under the enforced guardianship of the Ontario government . The doctor housed them in his hospital but this quintuplets were subjected to live an isolated life, they were locked up and inspected. They hardly had any contact with other humans expect the hospital staff even their own parents were not allowed to see them.

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The doctor soon created a tour and freely displayed the quintuplets serval times each day. Their birth stunned the world when multiple births were uncommon, with time their story produced extraordinary interest and people rushed from around the globe to see these astonishing quintuplets. These quintuplets were exploited and commercialized by the Ontario government, an entire multi-million dollar tourism industry was built around them yet in spite of this, little or nothing went to the quintuplets.

At the point when the sisters were nine, their parent Elzire and Oliva Dionne after an intense fight amongst them and Dr Dafoe, recovered guardianship of the young ladies after they have lived far from other youngsters and completely ignorance of the world yet life did not get any simpler for the young ladies, joy never went to the sisters tragic lives in light of the fact that after that it was their parents who now exploited them. First their parents used the girls trust fund to acquire a mansion for themselves, not just that, their parents began sending them out on tours in order to make more money. Their father according to the sisters subjected them to physical, sexual and mental abuse, he compelled them to do a lot of physical labour. They lived with their parents until they were 18, at this point they left their family home and stopped contact with their parents in order to forget about the unhappiness they have endured through the previous years. They began living a peaceful and customary lives.

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Today the Dionne identical quintuplets are left with only two sisters, three are dead. The remaining two sisters still alive rearly makes public appearance and they are 83years old.

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