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Miss Universe Canada 2009

beauty pageant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ16952676 ↗
Source-derived summary

Miss Universe Canada 2009 was the 7th Miss Universe Canada pageant held at The Metro Toronto Convention Centre's John Bassett Theatre in Toronto, Ontario the pageant presented by Dominique Dufour, Miss Canada 1981, Miss Universe 1981 1st runner-up and Miss Universe Canada Organization representative and co-host Rick Campanelli.

Mariana Valente, a 23-year-old of Richmond Hill, Ontario, was crowned Miss Universe Canada 2009. She was amongst 63 other contestants who competed for the title.

Valente represented Canada in the Miss Universe 2009 competition held on August 23, 2009 in Nassau, Bahamas where she did not place as a semifinalist.

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“Miss Universe Canada 2009” enters the record as beauty pageant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Miss, Universe and Canada can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Miss, Universe and Canada.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16952676. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “Miss Universe Canada 2009” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.