Buy Roadtrip USA by Jamie Jensen at Barnes and Noble. North Bay was originally a fur-trading post that boomed after the 1882 arrival of the railway. Today North Bay is a trade and transportation center, and its fur auctions are among the largest in the world.
Many tourists use it as a jumping-off point for wilderness expeditions.
The quints also did product endorsements, promoting soap, toothpaste, cereal, and Carnation milk. The stretch of Hwy-17 between North Bay and Mattawa unreels a nondescript view of scrubby forests broken by the small community of Rutherglen. In 1934, North Bay achieved worldwide fame with the birth of the Dionne Quintuplets, the world's only identical quints, an event that kept the tabloid mills churning for decades. Inc. All Rights Reserved.