Miss Universe Canada 2009 (from Brazil)

TORONTO, May 16 – Mariana Valente, a 23-year old student of languages at York University, was crowned Miss Universe Canada 2009 during an event held at the John Bassett Theatre in Toronto on May 16th.

Valente -who was born in Brazil and moved to Canada at age 12- stands 1.75 m tall. She will represent Canada at the Miss Universe pageant in the Bahamas on August 23rd.

The 1st runner-up was model Ylenia Aurucci (26), who had been a contestant in Canada's Next Top Model; 2nd runner-up was Ksenia Mezenina, 3rd runner-up was Neda Derakhshan and the 4th runner-up was Isabelle Grastin.

TingJia Lorogiano won the People's Choice Award, while Chanel Beckenlehner won the Miss Elegance and Audience Favorite prizes; Xiao Sun was awarded Best Runway, and Christina Heslenfeld won the Best in Swimwear award.

56 women competed in this year's edition of the contest.

www.globalbeauties.com/news/2009/may/canada.htm

Misses Canada

A indiana Neelam Verma (2002), as russas Inga Skaya (2007) e Natalie Glebova (2005), a iraniana Samantha Tajik (2008) e a búlgara Alice Panikian (2006).

http://beautycontests.blogspot.com/2008/05/canadian-beauty.html

"CANADIAN" beauty?

2006 - Alice Panikian born May 23, 1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria

2008 - Samantha Tajik is an Iranian-Canadian
2005 - Glebova was born in Tuapse, Russia

2007 - Inga Skaya Born as Inga Berdichevsky on January 7, 1986 in Moscow, Russia

2002 – Neelam Verma born in India

As we have seen, in recent years, most misses canada, wasn't born in the country.
So, the "Canadian beauty" was not represented?

Another interesting detail is that almost all of them were contestants of Ontario

Como vimos, nos últimos anos, a maioria das misses Canadá, não nasceram no país.

Sendo assim, a "Beleza Canadense" não foi representada?

Outro detalhe interessante é que a maioria delas foram candidatas por Ontário.