The future home of the Dionne Quints Museum was a hot topic at North Bay City Council last night (Monday).

There were several presentations against moving the home to Strong Township, as recommended in a staff report.

It had three main recommendations: move the home, its furniture and some artefacts to Strong Township, negotiate the transfer of pertinent paper documents to the Harris Learning Library and transfer some artifacts to the Callander Bay Museum.

As well, a relative of the family, Roch Legros said $10,000 had been raised with the purpose of keeping the home in the area or sending it to a National Museum in Ottawa, but not to Strong Township.

He says last month the surviving Quints indicated through their representative they wanted their home preserved in either North Bay or that it be sent to Ottawa.

City Council sent the staff report back to committee for further discussion.

Meantime, Nancy Black the executive director of Library Services at the Harris Learning Library says if they’re successful they would take care of any textual documents, printed material, photographs and sound and film recordings.

There were several other presentations opposed to sending the home to Strong Township.

One was from Jeff Fournier (pictured) who has 2,000 signatures, both hand-written and electronic.

There was also a presentation on moving the home to the waterfront.