Miss Grand Canada is a national beauty pageant, founded in 2017 in Calgary by Angelo Di Benedetto of Di Benedetto Model Agency. The contest winner represented the country in its parent international platform, Miss Grand International. 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.
Canada has been sending its delegates to compete in the Miss Grand International since 2013. The highest achievement was the second runner-up, won in 2014 by a model and actress from Alberta, Kathryn Kohut.
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.
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. 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. 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.
In 2019, Benedetto lost the franchise to Michelle Weswaldi, the president of the Miss World Canada pageant and Pageant Group Canada. Since then, the first runner-up of the said national contest has automatically been assumed Miss Grand Canada, 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.
Editions Location and date The Miss Grand Canada was organized as a stand-alone pageant three times; in 2017 and 2018 by the Di Benedetto Model agency, and the online pageant in 2021 by the MTC-W Inc.
Edition Date Final venue Entrants Ref. 1st 16 July 2017 Holiday Inn Express & Suites Calgary, Calgary 2nd 26 August 2018 Chinese Cultural Center, Calgary 3rd 18 June 2021
International competition The following is a list of Canadian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest. Color keys
YearProvinceMiss Grand CanadaNational qualificationPlacementSpecial AwardsNational Director 2026 British Columbia Patricia Seward Miss Grand Canada 2026 TBAMichelle Weswaldi 2025 British Columbia Layanna Robinson Miss Grand Canada 2025 Unplaced 2024 Ontario Alivia Croal Miss Grand Canada 2024 Unplaced 2023 Saskatchewan Yuliya Shcherban Miss Grand Canada 2023 Unplaced 2022 Alberta Mildred Rincon Miss Grand Canada 2022 Unplaced 2021 Quebec Olga Bykadorova Miss Grand Canada 2021 Unplaced 2020 British Columbia Sara Winter Miss Grand Canada 2020 Unplaced 2019 Quebec Brianna Plouffe Appointed Unplaced2018 Ontario Veronica Rodriguez Miss Grand Canada 2018 colspan="2" Angelo Di Benedetto Ontario Grace Diamani Finalist Miss Grand Canada 2018 Unplaced2017 Ontario Maddison Fysh Miss Grand Canada 2017 colspan="2" Alberta Natalie Allin Top 6 Miss World Canada 2017 Unplaced 2016 Alberta Monika Horvat Appointed Unplaced 2015 Ontario Jade Caron Finalist Miss Earth Canada 2015 UnplacedRonaldo Soriano Trono 2014 Alberta Kathryn Kohut Finalist Miss Earth Canada 2014 2nd runner-up 2013 Ontario Natalie Carriere Finalist Miss Earth Canada 2013 Unplaced Note
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