The Quintuplets
3/20/202654 min
When Elzire Dionne gave birth to five identical babies, she caught the attention of reporters and doctors hundreds of miles away, the Chicago World’s Fair – and the Ontario government. Before the quintuplets were ten months old, they passed a new law: the Dionne Quintuplet Guardianship Act. “These children are our own royal family.”
Sarah Miller’s book is The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets.
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Phoebe Judge· Host1:00
In 1934, a woman named Elzire Dion was pregnant in Ontario. She was 25. She and her husband, Oliva, lived on a farm and already had five children. And now she thought she might be having twins. She was due in July. On May 28th, she went into labor very early in the morning. Her aunt came