Miss Grand Canada

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Miss Grand Canada
Formation2017
FounderAngelo Di Benedetto
Type Beauty pageant
Headquarters Calgary
Location
Membership Miss Grand International
Official language
English
National director
Michelle Weswaldi
Parent organization
Pageant Group Canada Inc. (2019–Present)
Website MissGrandCanada.com
Miss Grand Canada licensee timeline
Miss Earth CanadaMiss Grand Canada

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]

Contents

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

The Miss Grand Canada was organized as a stand-alone pageant three times; in 2017 and 2018 by the Di Benedetto Model agency, [13] [14] [18] and the online pageant in 2021 by the MTC-W Inc. [17]

YearEditionDateFinal venueEntrantsWinnerRef.
20171st16 JulyHoliday Inn Express & Suites Calgary, Calgary N/AMaddison Fysh [a] [13] [14]
20182nd26 AugustChinese Cultural Center, Calgary 15Veronica Rodriguez [a] [1] [18]
20213rd18 JuneOnline pageant23Olga Bykadorova [2] [17]
Notes
a. a Resigned.

International competition

The following is a list of Canadian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.

Color keys
YearProvinceMiss Grand CanadaTitlePlacementSpecial AwardsNational Director
2025 British Columbia Layanna Robinson [19] Miss Grand Canada 2025TBAMichelle Weswaldi
2024 Ontario Alivia Croal [7] Miss Grand Canada 2024Unplaced [20]
2023 Saskatchewan Yuliya Shcherban [21] Miss Grand Canada 2023Unplaced [22]
2022 Alberta Mildred Rincon [6] Miss Grand Canada 2022Unplaced [23]
2021 Quebec Olga Bykadorova [17] Miss Grand Canada 2021Unplaced [24]
2020 British Columbia Sara Winter [5] Miss Grand Canada 2020Unplaced [25]
2019 Quebec Brianna Plouffe [26] AppointedUnplaced [27]
2018 Ontario Veronica Rodriguez [1] [18] Miss Grand Canada 2018Did not competeAngelo Di Benedetto
Ontario Grace Diamani [1] Finalist
Miss Grand Canada 2018		Unplaced [28]
2017 Ontario Maddison Fysh [29] Miss Grand Canada 2017Did not compete
Alberta Natalie Allin [13] [14] Top 6
Miss World Canada 2017 		Unplaced [30]
2016 Alberta Monica Horvat [31] AppointedUnplaced [32]
2015 Ontario Jade Caron [33] Finalist
Miss Earth Canada 2015 		Unplaced [34] Ronaldo Soriano Trono
2014 Alberta Kathryn Kohut [35] Finalist
Miss Earth Canada 2014 		2nd runner-up [36]
2013 Ontario Natalie Carriere [37] Finalist
Miss Earth Canada 2013 		Unplaced [38]

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