Canada’s Dionne quints were celebrated for being the first to survive infancy, but their lives continued to be difficult.

Their mother, Elzire Dionne, suspected she was carrying twins. She never expected quintuplets. Later, it was confirmed the five identical girls were from a single egg. It became a media storm.

Q: In Tuesday’s paper, in the “Today in History” column, it tells about the Dionne Quintuplets being born on this date in 1934. Are any of them still living? If not, how did they die?

The siblings received their degrees on May 13 from Montclair State University. A set of quintuplets from New Jersey whose parents are Italian immigrants recently graduated from the same college ...

In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were ...