Linda Holmes ‘At that event, there will be an unveiling of a plaque recognizing the birth of the Dionne Quintuplets as an historical event in Canadian history’ Ed Valenti chair Dionne Quints Heritage Board It has been 20 years since the Dionne Quintuplets...
Chris Dawson ‘It was just something we wanted to do and we thought needed to be done to make the home look like it really is a part of our community’ For the first time in as long as anyone can remember there are Christmas lights up on the Dionne...
Angela Gemmill, CBC News The group soon to be in charge of the birth home of the Dionne quintuplets is making plans for the big move. In April, North Bay city council voted to move the family home — which currently sits along the Trans Canada Highway — to the...
John Kenney /Postmedia Network The two surviving Dionne quintuplets are applauding council’s decision to keep their birth home in North Bay. In a statement provided Wednesday by family friend and spokesman Carlo Tarini, the surviving sisters – Annette and Cecile...
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...
