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The Dionne Quintuplets

Item number (ISN):

464289

Series title:

Canada On Record

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

464289

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Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: ON THE RECORD

Accession:

1981-0092

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1979-08-10

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

producer, Ken Pagnier; announcer, Bob Knapp; researcher, Helen Frayne; technical operator, Pierre Prud'homme

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First program in a 10-week CBC radio series that uses archival clips to explore Canada's social history from the 1930s and later. The archival clips are from the collections of the CBC and the Public Archives of Canada. The program includes clips of an announcement of the birth of the quintuplets, Dr. Dafoe speaking on the radio on 29 August 1935, Dr. Dafoe speaking on the occasion of the second birthday of the quints, comments by Senator David Croll, when he was the Ontario minister of welfare at the time of their second birthday, the 3-year-old quints interviewed by broadcaster T.O. Wickland, the quints on the radio in 1940, the girls on the radio on 9 May 1943, being interviewed by George Watson and Harry Red Foster, their father being interviewed, and the quintuplets singing "Mon coeur est canadien". The program talks about their birth, the medical care they received, supplies gathered and sent by the Toronto Star newspaper, donations from the Toronto Junior League and people from other parts of Canada as well as the United States; the decision of the Ontario government to take over responsibility for the care of the children, their doctor, Dr. Dafoe, tourists visiting their home, the fight by Oliva and Elmire Dionne to get their children back, being reunited with their family in a new home on 17 November 1943 after their parents won their custody fight with the Ontario government; and the Dionne quintuplets in later life. <30mn>

Language:

English

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1. Audio distortion originates from master.
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

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