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If it was just a beauty contest, we wouldn't have been in it, said 20-year-old Catherine Swing of Willowdale, a York University English major, after s(...)
If it was just a beauty contest, we wouldn't have been in it, said 20-year-old Catherine Swing of Willowdale, a York University English major, after s(...)

If it was just a beauty contest, we wouldn't have been in it, said 20-year-old Catherine Swing of Willowdale, a York University English major, after s(...)

Date8/7/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: If it was just a beauty contest; we wouldn't have been in it; said 20-year-old Catherine Swing of Willowdale; a York University English major; after she was picked Saturday as Miss Toronto at the Metro Toronto Police Games.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0020391F
It was hardly bikini weather yesterday but organizers of the Miss Chin beauty contest had no trouble getting 20 contestants to parade at Toronto Island. Winner: Darlene Heaslip, second from left
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Beauty contests just ain't what they used to be
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Oriental beauty, Nineteen-year-old Mila Nabor beams as she's named Miss Filipino in Canada at a beauty pageant in the Royal York Hotel
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Contestants for the Miss Philippines Canada and the Pearl of the Philippines beauty contests in a dress rehearsal for the contests Saturday night. Fro(...)
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A garland for Miss Argo, Betty Lou Pokol, 20, second-year nursing student at University of Toronto, smiles over her flowers after being chosen Miss Argonaut last night over 17 contestants
A garland for Miss Argo, Betty Lou Pokol, 20, second-year nursing student at University of Toronto, smiles over her flowers after being chosen Miss Argonaut last night over 17 contestants
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