Miss Grand Canada
Beauty pageant in Canada
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Miss Grand Canada is a national beauty pageant,[1][2][3] founded in 2017 in Calgary by Angelo Di Benedetto of Di Benedetto Model Agency.[4] The contest winner represented the country in its parent international platform, Miss Grand International.[1][2] After the license was taken over by Pageant Group Canada Inc. in 2019, most Canadian candidates at Miss Grand International were determined through the Miss World Canada pageant.[5][6][7]
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| Formation | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Angelo Di Benedetto |
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Calgary |
| Location | |
| Members | Miss Grand International |
Official language | English |
National Director | Michelle Weswaldi |
Parent organization | Pageant Group Canada Inc. (2019 – Present) |
| Website | MissGrandCanada.com |
Canada has been sending its delegates to compete in the Miss Grand International since 2013.[8] The highest achievement was the second runner-up, won in 2014 by a model and actress from Alberta, Kathryn Kohut.[9][10]
Background
From 2013 to 2015, the Miss Grand Canada license belonged to the Miss Earth Canada organizer, Rosotro Productions, headed by a Montréal-based Filipino-Canadian organizer, Ronaldo Soriano Trono. The Canadian representatives to Miss Grand International during such a period were elected through the Miss Earth Canada pageant.[11]
Canada began to organize the separate event for the Miss Grand International pageant in 2017, under the management of the Calgary-based model agency Di Benedetto Models, headed by Angelo Di Benedetto.[12] However, the pageant's winner, Maddison Fysh, resigned the title, which caused the organizer to appoint their affiliated model –Natalie Allin – to instead compete in the international competition.[13][14] The same incident also happen in 2018, when the runner-up Grace Diamani was promoted to take over the position after the original winner – Veronica Rodriguez – had relinquished the national title for undisclosed reasons.[1]
In 2019, Benedetto lost the franchise to Michelle Weswaldi, the president of the Miss World Canada pageant and Pageant Group Canada.[15] Since then, the first runner-up of the said national contest has automatically been assumed Miss Grand Canada,[16] Except in 2021, the Miss World 2020 contest was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the winner of Miss World Canada 2020 to compete at Miss World 2021 instead, and the 2021 national contest was also delayed, the organizer then decided to hold an ad hoc virtual contest to determine the country representative for Miss Grand International 2021. The contest featured 23 national finalists, in which a Ukrainian-Canadian model, Olga Bykadorova, was announced as the winner.[17][3]
Editions
International competition
The following is a list of Canadian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
- Color keys
- : Declared as the winner
- : Ended as a runner-up (Top 5)
- : Ended as a finalist (Top 10)
- : Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20/21)
- : Ended as special awards winner
| Year | Province | Miss Grand Canada | Title | Placement | Special Awards | National Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | British Columbia | Layanna Robinson[19] | Miss Grand Canada 2025[a] | Unplaced[20] | Michelle Weswaldi | |
| 2024 | Ontario | Alivia Croal[7] | Miss Grand Canada 2024[a] | Unplaced[21] | ||
| 2023 | Saskatchewan | Yuliya Shcherban[22] | Miss Grand Canada 2023[a] | Unplaced[23] | ||
| 2022 | Alberta | Mildred Rincon[6] | Miss Grand Canada 2022[a] | Unplaced[24] | ||
| 2021 | Quebec | Olga Bykadorova[17] | Miss Grand Canada 2021 | Unplaced[25] | ||
| 2020 | British Columbia | Sara Winter[5] | Miss Grand Canada 2020[a] | Unplaced[26] | ||
| 2019 | Quebec | Brianna Plouffe[27] | Appointed | Unplaced[28] | ||
| 2018 | Ontario | Veronica Rodriguez[1][18] | Miss Grand Canada 2018 | Did not compete | Angelo Di Benedetto | |
| Ontario | Grace Diamani[1] | Finalist Miss Grand Canada 2018 | Unplaced[29] | |||
| 2017 | Ontario | Maddison Fysh[30] | Miss Grand Canada 2017 | Did not compete | ||
| Alberta | Natalie Allin[13][14] | Top 6 Miss World Canada 2017 | Unplaced[31] | |||
| 2016 | Alberta | Monika Horvat[32] | Appointed | Unplaced[33] | ||
| 2015 | Ontario | Jade Caron[34] | Finalist Miss Earth Canada 2015 | Unplaced[35] | Ronaldo Soriano Trono | |
| 2014 | Alberta | Kathryn Kohut[36] | Finalist Miss Earth Canada 2014 | 2nd runner-up[37] | ||
| 2013 | Ontario | Natalie Carriere[38] | Finalist Miss Earth Canada 2013 | Unplaced[39] | ||
- Note
- Supplemental title in the Miss World Canada pageant.
Gallery
Miss Grand Canada 2014
Kathryn Kohut
Miss Grand Canada 2021
Olga Bykadorova
Miss Grand Canada 2022
Mildred Rincon
Miss Grand Canada 2023
Yuliya Shcherban
Miss Grand Canada 2024
Alivia Croal
Miss Grand Canada 2025
Layanna Robinson
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