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1946 - July 4 - Hamilton ON
1 Newtonbrook ON - Marion Saver
2 Hamilton ON - Muriel Hunter
3 Collingwood ON - Pat Hall
4 Montréal PQ - Jeanne Quesnel
(6 of 59 contestants)
Collingwood ON: Pat Hall
Hamilton ON: Muriel Hunter
Montréal PQ: Jeanne Quesnel
Newtonbrook ON: Marion Saver (Miss Toronto 1943)
Toronto ON: Phyllis Webb
Yellowknife NWT: Vera Clegg (actually from Edmonton)
* NOTE - Newtonbrook is only 4 miles north of Toronto.
1947 - August 22 - Hamilton ON
1 Toronto ON - Margaret Marshall (2nd RU & Prelim Swimsuit - MAO 47)
2 Toronto ON - Irene Ayers
3 Toronto ON - Jean Elizabeth Rigby
4 Toronto ON - Kay Ireland
5 Winnipeg MB - Marjorie Graham
(15 of 28 contestants)
Brampton ON: Jacqueline Armstrong
Victoria BC: Rosemary Hurst
Hamilton ON: Shirleen Cooper
Hamilton ON: Muriel Hunter
Hamilton ON: Mary Baxendale
(Miss Hamilton 1945)
Hamilton ON: Mary Sutherland
Hamilton ON: Nadia Demlanyk (native of Glace Bay NS)
Regina SK: Tillie Fleming (Miss Regina 1947)
Toronto ON: Kay Ireland (Miss Toronto 1945)
Toronto ON: Margaret Marshall (Miss Toronto 1947)
Toronto ON: Jean Elizabeth Rigby
Toronto ON: Etta Russell
Toronto/Stayner ON: Irene Ayers (Miss Toronto 1946)
Winnipeg MB: Marjorie Graham (Miss Winnipeg 1947)
1948 - August 20 - Hamilton ON
1 Halifax NS - Betty Jean Ferguson (MAO 48)
2 Toronto ON - Irene Phyllis Williams
3 Taber AB - Ethel Christine Valgardson
(finalists)
Fredericton NB - Pearl Merrill
Toronto ON - Irene Ayers
Toronto ON - Tina Bodden
Toronto ON - Florence Ferriman
Toronto ON - Connie Laidlaw
Toronto ON - Betty Jane Pike
Toronto ON - Jean Elizabeth Rigby
(special awards)
Most Beautiful Hair: Toronto ON - Irene Ayers
Talent Scholarship Winner: Hamilton ON - Wilma Porthouse
(22 contestants, total number unknown)
Fredericton NB: Pearl Merrill
Galt ON: Ruth Warning
Halifax NS: Betty Jean Ferguson
Hamilton ON: Margaret Coulthard
Hamilton ON: Wilma Eileen Porthouse
Ottawa ON: Laureen Mae Marcenko
Pointe Claire PQ: Katheen MacDonald
Prince Albert SK: Betty Jean Anderson
Princeton ON: Marion Kipps
St. Catharine's ON: Dianne Brisson
Taber AB: Ethel Christine Valgardson (Miss Southern Alberta 1948)
Toronto ON: Irene Ayers
Toronto ON: Tina Bodden
Toronto ON: Florence Ferriman
Toronto ON: Connie Laidlaw
Toronto ON: Irene Petro
Toronto ON: Betty Jane Pike
Toronto ON: Jean Elizabeth Rigby
Toronto ON: Phyllis Williams
Waterdown ON: Joyce Magnan
Windsor ON: Marian Kipp
Winnipeg MB: Marilyn James
1949 - August 18 - Toronto ON
1 Toronto ON - Margaret Lynn Munn (SF & Prelim Talent - MAO 49, Miss Hemisphere 1949)
2 Toronto ON - Joan Darrell
3 Toronto ON - Arlene Markell
(finalists)
Halifax NS - Bette Catherine Kane
Mimico ON - Betty Brown
Ottawa ON - Laureen Mae Marcenko
Toronto ON - Elizabeth Lyons
Toronto ON - Dorothy van Sickler
Vancouver BC - Joan McPherson
Winnipeg MB - Gloria Gray
(special awards)
Talent Award: Cobourg ON - Margaret Elinore Bradford
(26 contestants)
Belleville ON: Lois Martyn
Brantford ON: Lois Micks
Cobourg ON: Margaret Elinore Bradford (Miss Canada 1950)
Halifax NS: Bette Catherine Kane
Hamilton ON: Isobella McCulloch
Lethbridge AB: Jean Bullock
London ON: Beverly McDougall
Mimico ON: Betty Brown
Niagara Falls ON: Bridget Burton
Niagara Falls ON: Harriet Shriner
Oshawa ON: Elizabeth Barta
Oshawa ON: Mary Brotherwood
Ottawa ON: Laureen Mae Marcenko
Ottawa ON: Freda Stevenson
Québec City PQ: Norma Dupont
Sarnia ON: Elizabeth Harper
Sudbury ON: Lucille Scanlan
Toronto ON: Joan Durrell
Toronto ON: Arlene Markell
Toronto ON: Elizabeth Lyons
Toronto ON: Margaret Lynn Munn
Toronto ON: Dorothy van Sickler
Vancouver BC: Joan McPherson
Windsor ON: Madeline Lavasseur
Windsor ON: Noreen Nobel
Winnipeg MB: Gloria Gray
* - NOTE: Margaret Lynn Munn moved to Toronto from North Vancouver, BC to pursue her singing career just two months prior to winning Miss Canada.
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