St. Lawrence Starch achieved significant publicity in the 1930s as the supplier of Bee Hive corn syrup to the Dionne quintuplets (corn syrup was used at that time as a formula-type nutritional supplement).

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Correspondence from W. T. Gray to Dionne
quintuplets doctor, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, regarding
St. Lawrence Starch donation, 1934
St. Lawrence Starch Company fonds
Reference Code: F 4392-58, Box 1G
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Letter from W. H. Alderson, Official Guardian
of Dionne quintuplets, endorsing Bee Hive
Golden Corn Syrup, 1934
St. Lawrence Starch Company fonds
Reference Code: F 4392-58, Box 1G
Archives of Ontario