House Where Dionne Quintuplets Were Born Will Stay in North Bay<br />By IAN AUSTENAPRIL 4, 2017<br />OTTAWA — A city in northern Ontario abandoned a plan on Tuesday night to ship the birthplace of the Dionne quintuplets,<br />the miracle babies of the Great Depression, to another community with no direct connection to their story.<br />The two surviving quintuplets, Annette and Cécile, reluctantly returned to the public spotlight to challenge the original plan of<br />the city — which hosted about three million tourists, including many celebrities of the era, who came to see the quintuplets.<br />In its reversal, the City Council of North Bay voted, 7-3, to instead move the tiny log house from its current<br />site on the Trans-Canada Highway to a relatively new downtown park on the shore of Lake Nipissing.<br />The Council voted only to cover the cost of moving the home, which became world famous after the<br />birth of the five Dionne sisters on May 28, 1934, as well as its future exterior maintenance.<br />"Now we’re going to have to have an operational plan,<br />but that’s going to be nothing compared to what we’ve been through." Follow Ian Austen on Twitter @ianrausten.<br />Miles Peters, one of the North Bay residents who challenged the move, said he expected<br />that higher levels of government would contribute grants for the museum.
