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Miss Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Miss Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For pageants of a similar name see Miss Canada (disambiguation)

Miss Canada was a scholarship competition for young women in Canada. It was founded in Hamilton in 1946. The first broadcast of the Miss Canada pageant aired in 1963 on CBC.[1] Jim Perry hosted the pageant on CTV from 1967 until 1991.

The show was popular in 1970s, with up to 5 million viewers, but declined in the 1980s, until it was cancelled.[2][3] Producers of the show cited mounting production costs, as the reason for cancellation. The last winner was Miss Canada 1992 Nicole Dunsdon from British Columbia.

Winnifred Blair of Saint John, New Brunswick was proclaimed the first Miss Canada on 11 February 1923 at an earlier, unrelated competition during the Montreal Winter Carnival.[4][5] The runner-up in that event was Muriel Harper of Winnipeg, Manitoba.[6]

The Miss Canada Pageant obtained the franchise for the Miss Universe Pageant in 1978, when that year's first runner-up competed internationally. From 1979 to the final contest, the winners of Miss Canada went on to compete. Miss Canada 1982, Karen Baldwin, being the only person to also win Miss Universe; a Canadian won Miss Universe a second time in 2005, but long after Miss Canada had been abolished.

[edit] Winners

The following is a partial list of winners (1970-1992):[7]

Year Name From
1992 Nicole Dunsdon Interior of British Columbia
1991 Leslie McLaren Edmonton, Alberta
1990 Robin Lee Ouzunoff Niagara Region, Ontario
1989 Juliette Powell Laurentians Region, Quebec
1988 Melinda Gillies London, Ontario
1987 Tina May Simpson Niagara Region, Ontario
1986 Rene Newhouse Interior of British Columbia
1985 Karen Elizabeth Tilley Calgary, Alberta
1984 Cynthia Kereluk Edmonton, Alberta
1983 Jodi Yvonne Rutledge Manitoba
1982 Karen Dianne Baldwin London, Ontario
1981 Dominique Dufour Laval, Quebec
1980 Terry MacKay Calgary, Alberta
1979 Heidi Quiring Manitoba
1978 Catherine Swing Toronto, Ontario
1977 Yvonne Foster Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1976 Sylvia McGuire Nova Scotia
1975 Terry Lynne Meyer Edmonton, Alberta
1974 Blair Lancaster Burlington, Ontario
1973 Gillian Regehr Victoria, British Columbia
1972 Donna Mary Sawicky Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
1971 Caroline Amelia Commisso Thunder Bay, Ontario
1970 Julie Maloney Ottawa/Hull, Ontario/Quebec

[edit] References

  1. ^ Miss Canada (1963) at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ "Farewell, Miss Canada", CBC
  3. ^ Pageant News Bureau: Miss Canada Chronicles
  4. ^ Government of New Brunswick: This Week in New Brunswick History
  5. ^ Saint John, New Brunswick dates in history
  6. ^ "News in Picture", The Globe, 16 February 1923, p. 10. 
  7. ^ Jimmy's Pageant Page: list of title holders 1946-1992


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