Annette Dionne, last of the famed Canadian quintuplets, dies at 91
Posted on: Dec 27, 2025 10:40 IST | Posted by: Cbc
Annette Dionne, the endure living Dionne quin and a defend of children's rights, has died.
The Dionne Quints place Museum in North Bay, Ont., says in a social media post that Annette died on Christmas Eve but did not provide further details.
Dionne and her sisters became a global sensation after their birth on May 28, 1934, as they were the first quintuplets known to survive past infancy — but the attention came at a personal cost.
When the quintuplets were just months old during the Depression era, the Ontario government took them away from their parents and put them in a nursery-style exhibition that millions of tourists lined up to observe through one-way glass.
In 1998, the Ontario government apologized to the sisters and issued a $4-million settlement for the years they spent on display.
Dionne told The Canadian Press in a 2019 interview that parents should view childhood as a precious time which shouldn't be exploited for profit.
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