Miss Canada

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Miss Canada is a beauty competition for young ladies in Canada. It become based in Hamilton in 1946. No name turned into offered from 1993 via 2008. The trademark was purchased in 2009 through a Québec employer who produces the competition below the name to this day. According to the brand new Miss Canada and Miss Teen Canada net site, the name turned into re-mounted with a focus on character over bodily appearance. The Miss Canada competition is Canada's oldest extant beauty festival.

The first broadcast of the Miss Canada festival aired in 1963 on CTV with information anchors Peter Jennings and Baden Langton web hosting. Gordon MacRae was hired to sing the first Miss Canada Pageant track. Each of the 23 contestants turned into escorted by a younger officer of the Canadian Armed Forces. Carol Ann Balmer of Toronto received and Lise Mercier of Quebec City become Miss Congeniality. The escorts were selected and supervised through a younger Armoured Corps Officer, J. R. Digger MacDougall, who escorted the runner up, Lise Mercier. Jennings remained as solo host till 1966 and was replaced through game show host Jim Perry, who hosted the festival till 1990. Dominique Dufour, the winner of the Miss Canada Pageant in 1981, co-hosted with Perry from 1982 till 1990. The very last competition, airing in late 1991, changed into hosted by way of Peter Feniak and Liz Grogan.

The show changed into popular inside the 1970s, with up to 5 million viewers, however declined inside the 1980s, until it become cancelled. Producers of the show noted mounting production charges, as the purpose for cancellation. The remaining winner became Miss Canada 1992 Nicole Dunsdon from British Columbia.

Winnifred Blair of Saint John, New Brunswick changed into proclaimed the first "Miss Canada" on eleven February 1923 at an earlier, unrelated opposition at some stage in the Montreal Winter Carnival. The runner-up in that event turned into Muriel Harper of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The Miss Canada Pageant acquired the franchise for the Miss Universe Pageant in 1978, when that year's first runner-up, Andrea Leslie Eng, competed internationally. From 1979 to the final contest, the winners of Miss Canada went directly to compete. Miss Canada 1982, Karen Stanley Baldwin, is the best Miss Canada to also win Miss Universe. Since 2003, Canada's representative to Miss Universe has been selected with the aid of the Miss Universe Canada festival.

Prior to Miss Universe, the Miss Canada Pageant sent delegates to the Miss America festival. No Miss Canada has gained Miss America but some have located. Miss Canada participated within the pageant from 1947 to 1962.