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There were also at least two notable physicians in the family: an uncle, Dr William Allan Dafoe, who was to influence Colin Dafoe's decision to pursue a medical career, and his son Dr Allan Roy Dafoe, who later moved to the remote northern town of Callander, Ontario, where he would rise to international celebrity as the country doctor who delivered the Dionne Quintuplets on May 28, 1934.