The Dionne quintuplets’ long struggle for justice ended Friday after the three surviving sisters accepted a settlement from the Ontario government, which exhibited them as infants before tourists during the Great Depression.
Annette, Cecile and Yvonne Dionne, who last week rejected an Ontario government offer of a monthly pension of $1,400 pension each, Friday agreed to a $2.8 million settlement and the promise of a full investigation into the mishandling of a government-controlled trust fund.
The sisters, now 63, did not attend the Toronto news conference called by the government to announce the settlement.
The sisters were removed from their parents by the Ontario government, which claimed they would be exploited by American promoters. They were subsequently paraded for nine years before curious tourists, earnings millions of dollars for the government.
