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Nicole Dunsdon (born November 7, 1970) is a Canadian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was the last person to win the Miss Canada competition[1] before it was cancelled in 1992. The title was resurrected in 2009.

Biography

Dunsdon was born November 6, 1970. She is from Summerland, British Columbia.[2]

She graduated from Summerland Secondary School in 1988;[3] from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1994; and from the University of Western Ontario with a Master of Arts in Journalism the following year.[3]

Dunsdon was crowned Miss Canada in October 1991.[4] She also competed in Miss Universe 1992 in Bangkok, Thailand.[5]

Some women's organizations considered the Miss Canada pageant to encourage the sexual objectification of women. Dunsdon said in 2009 that there are beauty pageant contestants that meet the stereotypes; "egotistical, materialistic, slightly air-headed and ill-informed... but those ones never win."[6] She ascribed the cancellation of the pageant to the early 1990s recession, and expressed disappointment "that something as traditional as the Miss Canada pageant was touchable by the economic recession."[7]

As a journalist, she was one of the editors of Harold McGill's memoirs.[8] In addition to editing three books, Dunsdon worked with The Calgary Herald and The Globe and Mail before taking a position in communications with SAIT Polytechnic's Applied Research and Innovation Services department. Dunsdon later became a communications specialist at the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering.[citation needed]

Family

Dunsdon married Patrick Kryczka, and was the daughter-in-law of Joe Kryczka. They separated in 2015. Dunsdon and Kryczka's son Spencer played hockey for the Okotoks Oilers, and the Princeton Tigers.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ Miss Canada 1992 - Final Walk, Crowning Moment.
  2. ^ "Fort Langley activist crowned". The Vancouver Sun. February 1, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Nicole Dunsdon: Journalist" (PDF). School District 67 Okanagan Skaha. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  4. ^ "This Week in History". Barrie Advance. January 3, 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  5. ^ "No More Pageant?". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. January 4, 1992. p. 2A.
  6. ^ "And the winner is... Miss Whoever". Ottawa Citizen. May 19, 2009. Archived from the original on April 22, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  7. ^ "Missing Congeniality". Chicago Tribune. January 19, 1992. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  8. ^ Harold McGill (2007). Marjorie Barron Norris; Nicole Dunsdon (eds.). Medicine and Duty: The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion, C.E.F. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1552381939.
  9. ^ "Spencer Kryczka". Princeton Athletics. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  10. ^ Greer, Remy (2012-10-03). "Oiler proud of family's Summit Series legacy". Okotoks Western Wheel. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
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