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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Welcome To Quintland
Description: âMiracle babiesâ the Dionne Quintuplets - Yvonne, Annette, CĂ©cile, Ămilie, and Marie, the first known quintuplets to survive infancy - born on 28th May, 1934 in rural Canada.Fearing 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. Oliva Dionne fought a nine-year battle to regain them. In the interval, they became the countryâs biggest tourist attraction, as three million visitors flocked to âQuintlandâ to watch the babies at play behind a one-way screen.In...