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