Ian Austen NORTH BAY, Ontario — The tiny log house alongside the Trans-Canada Highway is easy to miss among the strip malls, fast-food outlets and car dealers. But 83 years ago, it was the eye of a publicity maelstrom because of a one-in-a-billion event: the birth of...
Gord Young A special review committee of council will recommend the birth home of the Dionne Quintuplets be relocated near the Discovery North Bay Museum. But it’s going to take the co-operation of the museum’s board to make that happen. A meeting of the...
Aaron Mahoney Councillor Mark King said on Tuesday night that through the surviving Dionne Quintuplet sister’s spokesperson, Carlo Tarini he’d been told the Dionne sisters wanted to see their home go to Ottawa. Carlo Tarini reached out to the Moose, and wanted to...
A North Bay man has started a petition to save the Dionne Quintuplets’ home. Jeff Fournier has collected 1800 signatures on a petition calling for the cabin to be designated a heritage building and re-opened as a museum. “The historical and cultural...
That log cabin where the Dionne quintuplets were born has been a tourist attraction alongside the highway in North Bay for decades but its future is up in the air. Jeff Fournier started a petition to have the home designated a heritage building. Listen here:...
