tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8790289735302476857.post4608173791833785224..comments2024-03-29T03:26:43.543-04:00Comments on The Toronto Dreams Project Historical Ephemera Blog: Photo: What Miss Toronto Looked Like in 1926Adam Bunchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07330281017966163295noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8790289735302476857.post-80174828673840568242018-07-15T15:26:47.859-04:002018-07-15T15:26:47.859-04:00She was a super babe. :)She was a super babe. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02861108207722110988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8790289735302476857.post-71691177228682322842016-02-27T16:47:56.516-05:002016-02-27T16:47:56.516-05:00Jean Ford Tolmie was my great aunt.
As my family h...Jean Ford Tolmie was my great aunt.<br />As my family has told us, she did enter the contest single and the reason her name was Ford was she borrowed that name from her mother's side; it was her mother's maiden name and she did so because it was scandalous for young ladies to do such things back in those days, at least my Great Grandparents would have thought so, but her brother was certain she would win (lucky guess) and so wanted to enter her. <br />Also, the organizers denied her in the USA pageant because they found out she'd been born in Scotland.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8790289735302476857.post-27200465768029125552011-10-28T01:23:26.999-04:002011-10-28T01:23:26.999-04:00That's Jean Ford (Tolmie)! She wasn't even...That's Jean Ford (Tolmie)! She wasn't even single. :) She also won Miss Congeniality in the Miss USA pageant that year -- the organizers denied her from being in the finals due to being Canadian.<br /><br />If you search for 'beauty' in the Toronto Archives, most of the results are from the pageants.Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03157869115716299116noreply@blogger.com