On May 28, 1934, Elzire Dionne gave birth to five identical girls in a small farmhouse in Ontario, Canada. No set of quintuplets had ever survived before. The girls were tiny, each weighing about two pounds. A country doctor named Allan Roy Dafoe kept them alive using incubators and careful feeding. The babies became a worldwide sensation. Within months, the Canadian government made a controversial decision. They took the girls away from their parents. The government said the Dionne family could not care for five babies properly. The quintuplets were placed in a special nursery called Quintland. Visitors could watch the girls play through one-way glass, like a human zoo. Over three million people visited Quintland between 1934 and 1943. The girls generated millions of dollars through tourism, product endorsements, and movies. Companies used their faces to sell everything from cereal to soap. Their parents fought for nine years to bring them home. The girls were finally returned in 1943. As adults, the surviving sisters spoke about how being taken from their family and put on display had deeply hurt them. Their story raised important questions about children's rights.