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In anticipation of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman has been out in search of Ottawans — 150 of them — to learn their stories of life and death, hope and love, the exceptional and the everyday. We’ll share one person’s story every day until Canada Day.
“The best advice I got came very soon after I’d won the (Miss Canada) pageant. One of the former Miss Canadas had been a judge on the panel and she came up to me and said, ‘It looks very glamorous, but my advice to you is to treat this like a job. It’s a job and there are going to be days when you’re not going to feel like it, and you have to be out there smiling and you have to look good, and people will say unkind things to you. Don’t take it personally; it’s a job.’ And really, that was awfully good advice. I think at the beginning I thought, ‘Oh, no, no, no, it’ll be different,’ but it wasn’t. She was absolutely right, and I learned that very, very quickly.
“I was working at CFRA. The reason I had the part-time job there was I had won their Campus Queen contest a few years before. They were looking for the ideal high-school girl, and held this contest every year, sponsored by Coca-Cola. It was a big deal. As a result of that, I got some promotional work and modelling work, and I got this part-time job at the station.
“So one day the program director came into my office and said, ‘You’re the only unmarried woman in the building. We want you to take part in the Miss Ottawa pageant,’ and I said, ‘I don’t think so. It’s not my kind of thing.’ The Campus Queen was fun – you didn’t have to do a bathing suit or a talent competition. They just wanted to know what sort of activities you were involved in and what your community involvement was. But this was something else completely different. There was a talent show, an evening gown competition, the swimsuit — that sort of thing — and I didn’t think I was the right person. However … he was very insistent.
“So I won there, and was the representative for Ottawa at the Miss Canada in Toronto.
“That was initially terrifying because I didn’t know what to expect. Girls were coming from all across Canada, and we had one week to get ready for the TV telecast. And there were several dance numbers and the parade of the evening gowns, and the swimsuits and the talent. So we were up early in the morning, breakfast on the bus to CTV to practise. But we were very lucky; Jim Perry was the emcee, and he was the nicest man, and so sweet with all the girls. He made sure he spoke to every girl and asked them about themselves and put everybody at ease.
“On the night of the telecast … we had had a pre-pageant show where all the girls did all their talent and swimsuit, and they winnowed it down to five semi-finalists, and we didn’t know who those were. We only found out on the telecast, on the night of the pageant.
“I wasn’t going to sing for the talent part. My brothers said no way, don’t sing. I was in the journalism program at Carleton and I was taking English, French and Spanish as part of my course load. And I’d always loved languages and theatre, so I thought I’d use that, and so I performed a soliloquy from Romeo and Juliet in three languages. Eventually it came down to Miss Saskatchewan and me, and I ended up winning. One of the things I won was a car, a little Fiat. Totally inappropriate for Ottawa winters but boy was that car fun to drive.
“But it WAS a job. Some of it was lots of fun; I got to meet wonderful people. Some of it was not fun, and not such nice people. Just human nature — sometimes people would say really unkind things to me. For example: ‘My sister is better-looking than you’ or ‘I thought Miss Canadas were supposed to have big boobs.’
“I traveled a lot with a chaperone, Mary Hart. She was an older lady and one of the kindest people I know. We travelled all over together. Sometimes you were really busy: up at four to catch a 6 a.m. flight to be somewhere at eight. Depending on the sponsor, you might be at a department store modeling swimsuits or signing autographs. I attended a lot of car shows because of Fiat. There may or may not be some sort of dinner at night, and then you’d wake up the next morning and do the same thing. That was tiring because I wasn’t used to it.
Julie Maloney, Miss Canada 1970.
“But other trips were wonderful. I was able to go with the CBC as part of their concert tour for our troops. We went to Cyprus. And I was also part of their concert tour up north. We went to Inuvik and Yellowknife.
“I also did a concert tour to Labrador, with (CBC broadcasters) Max Ferguson and Allen McPhee. There was a storm when we went to Labrador City and our plane had to delay its landing. They apparently weren’t allowed to salt the runway; they could only sand it, and so when we landed, the plane had a hard time stopping. And the pilot came on and said, ‘Repeat after me: Our father, who art in heaven…’ Now he was saying it in a light-hearted way because he knew he was going to be able to land eventually — and he did — but he wanted to prepare us. And this was my first trip out as Miss Canada, and it was terrifying, actually.
“So the plane lands at the very end of the runway, almost in the snowbank, and we figure, OK, somebody will come and pick us up. But no, and they finally get the doors open and get the gangplank down, and we looked off WAY in the distance and saw the airport, and so we all trudged to the airport. And I’m thinking, ‘Well, THIS is glamorous!’
“Then we finally get to the airport, and they’re picketing us! We walked in and there were 35 or 40 people with signs saying, ‘Boo CBC.’ It turns out the reason they were upset — and I don’t blame them — was that at that time, the programming they received up there was six weeks late. So they would receive a football game or other programs that were six weeks late, and they really felt like second-class citizens. So that was my introduction to being Miss Canada.
“Later that year, I had done some traveling and had come home for Christmas. My parents belonged to a place that no longer exists as a club, but it was called the Country Club and it was across the river on the Quebec side. It’s now the home of Marlon and Michael Cowpland.
“My parents took me for dinner there, and Pierre Trudeau happened to be there having dinner with John Turner and his wife. And of course the news went around that Miss Canada was in the room, and so I was invited over to their table to meet Pierre Trudeau. And he was so gracious, as were the Turners. And that’s how I met Pierre Trudeau. And I received a lovely note from him afterwards saying that he hoped we would meet again, and there were various times during my year that we did see each other. He invited me to his niece’s engagement party at 24 Sussex, for example, and when Prince Charles came to Ottawa I was invited to the gala dinner. I remember Prince Charles said to me: ‘Miss Canada! Is it your job to go about the world peddling maple syrup?’
Alpine skier Betsy Clifford, hockey player Bobby Orr and Miss Canada Julie Maloney attend a Rideau Hall gala in 1970 for Prince Charles.
“Pierre and I went out several times. I went to the Liberal Christmas party with him. We were good friends, and remained good friends. He had the ability to make it seem like what I was doing was really interesting to him, and I thought afterwards, ‘Really?’ I was 19 or 20 years old and just learning to be a teacher and still at university and trying to make my way in the world, and he had been everywhere and done everything. But I think he WAS interested. And even after the year was over and he was married, our friendship endured.
“The last time that I saw him, he was becoming quite frail. We were chatting, and I guess I had some sense that I wouldn’t see him again, and so I said, ‘I don’t want to seem maudlin, but I really want to tell you just how much our friendship has meant to me over the years, and it’s been such a privilege to have known you and been your friend.’ And he said, ‘And I’ve enjoyed you, too.’ And I said, ‘Really? You’ve been around some of the most brilliant minds in the world. What could I have ever provided you?’ And he said, ‘Comic relief.’ And I thought, ‘That’s perfect! That’s how I want to be remembered, as comic relief.’ And he also liked my homemade chocolate-chip cookies.
“So my year as Miss Canada went from November 1969 to November 1970. And I look back on it with fondness for most of the things. I think that perhaps the girls who were a little bit older than I was when they became Miss Canadas may have had an easier time. I was 18 and, I would have to say, naïve. But yes, most of it was great, and I think the thing I remember most fondly were the people I met with whom I remained friends afterwards. I never would have met Pierre Trudeau if it hadn’t been for that year, and we maintained a friendship up until the time he died. But also many other people who weren’t in the public eye, like Mary Hart, my chaperone. Just people who had a profound influence on my life in a very positive way, and I’m very glad I did it.”
— 1970 Miss Canada Julie Maloney. At her home in Kanata, March 8, 2017.
bdeachman@postmedia.com
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“The best advice I got came very soon after I’d won the (Miss Canada) pageant. One of the former Miss Canadas had been a judge on the panel and she came up to me and said, ‘It looks very glamorous, but my advice to you is to treat this like a job. It’s a job and there are going to be days when you’re not going to feel like it, and you have to be out there smiling and you have to look good, and people will say unkind things to you. Don’t take it personally; it’s a job.’ And really, that was awfully good advice. I think at the beginning I thought, ‘Oh, no, no, no, it’ll be different,’ but it wasn’t. She was absolutely right, and I learned that very, very quickly.
“I was working at CFRA. The reason I had the part-time job there was I had won their Campus Queen contest a few years before. They were looking for the ideal high-school girl, and held this contest every year, sponsored by Coca-Cola. It was a big deal. As a result of that, I got some promotional work and modelling work, and I got this part-time job at the station.
“So one day the program director came into my office and said, ‘You’re the only unmarried woman in the building. We want you to take part in the Miss Ottawa pageant,’ and I said, ‘I don’t think so. It’s not my kind of thing.’ The Campus Queen was fun – you didn’t have to do a bathing suit or a talent competition. They just wanted to know what sort of activities you were involved in and what your community involvement was. But this was something else completely different. There was a talent show, an evening gown competition, the swimsuit — that sort of thing — and I didn’t think I was the right person. However … he was very insistent.
“So I won there, and was the representative for Ottawa at the Miss Canada in Toronto.
“That was initially terrifying because I didn’t know what to expect. Girls were coming from all across Canada, and we had one week to get ready for the TV telecast. And there were several dance numbers and the parade of the evening gowns, and the swimsuits and the talent. So we were up early in the morning, breakfast on the bus to CTV to practise. But we were very lucky; Jim Perry was the emcee, and he was the nicest man, and so sweet with all the girls. He made sure he spoke to every girl and asked them about themselves and put everybody at ease.
“On the night of the telecast … we had had a pre-pageant show where all the girls did all their talent and swimsuit, and they winnowed it down to five semi-finalists, and we didn’t know who those were. We only found out on the telecast, on the night of the pageant.
“I wasn’t going to sing for the talent part. My brothers said no way, don’t sing. I was in the journalism program at Carleton and I was taking English, French and Spanish as part of my course load. And I’d always loved languages and theatre, so I thought I’d use that, and so I performed a soliloquy from Romeo and Juliet in three languages. Eventually it came down to Miss Saskatchewan and me, and I ended up winning. One of the things I won was a car, a little Fiat. Totally inappropriate for Ottawa winters but boy was that car fun to drive.
“But it WAS a job. Some of it was lots of fun; I got to meet wonderful people. Some of it was not fun, and not such nice people. Just human nature — sometimes people would say really unkind things to me. For example: ‘My sister is better-looking than you’ or ‘I thought Miss Canadas were supposed to have big boobs.’
“I traveled a lot with a chaperone, Mary Hart. She was an older lady and one of the kindest people I know. We travelled all over together. Sometimes you were really busy: up at four to catch a 6 a.m. flight to be somewhere at eight. Depending on the sponsor, you might be at a department store modeling swimsuits or signing autographs. I attended a lot of car shows because of Fiat. There may or may not be some sort of dinner at night, and then you’d wake up the next morning and do the same thing. That was tiring because I wasn’t used to it.
Julie Maloney, Miss Canada 1970.
“But other trips were wonderful. I was able to go with the CBC as part of their concert tour for our troops. We went to Cyprus. And I was also part of their concert tour up north. We went to Inuvik and Yellowknife.
“I also did a concert tour to Labrador, with (CBC broadcasters) Max Ferguson and Allen McPhee. There was a storm when we went to Labrador City and our plane had to delay its landing. They apparently weren’t allowed to salt the runway; they could only sand it, and so when we landed, the plane had a hard time stopping. And the pilot came on and said, ‘Repeat after me: Our father, who art in heaven…’ Now he was saying it in a light-hearted way because he knew he was going to be able to land eventually — and he did — but he wanted to prepare us. And this was my first trip out as Miss Canada, and it was terrifying, actually.
“So the plane lands at the very end of the runway, almost in the snowbank, and we figure, OK, somebody will come and pick us up. But no, and they finally get the doors open and get the gangplank down, and we looked off WAY in the distance and saw the airport, and so we all trudged to the airport. And I’m thinking, ‘Well, THIS is glamorous!’
“Then we finally get to the airport, and they’re picketing us! We walked in and there were 35 or 40 people with signs saying, ‘Boo CBC.’ It turns out the reason they were upset — and I don’t blame them — was that at that time, the programming they received up there was six weeks late. So they would receive a football game or other programs that were six weeks late, and they really felt like second-class citizens. So that was my introduction to being Miss Canada.
“Later that year, I had done some traveling and had come home for Christmas. My parents belonged to a place that no longer exists as a club, but it was called the Country Club and it was across the river on the Quebec side. It’s now the home of Marlon and Michael Cowpland.
“My parents took me for dinner there, and Pierre Trudeau happened to be there having dinner with John Turner and his wife. And of course the news went around that Miss Canada was in the room, and so I was invited over to their table to meet Pierre Trudeau. And he was so gracious, as were the Turners. And that’s how I met Pierre Trudeau. And I received a lovely note from him afterwards saying that he hoped we would meet again, and there were various times during my year that we did see each other. He invited me to his niece’s engagement party at 24 Sussex, for example, and when Prince Charles came to Ottawa I was invited to the gala dinner. I remember Prince Charles said to me: ‘Miss Canada! Is it your job to go about the world peddling maple syrup?’
Alpine skier Betsy Clifford, hockey player Bobby Orr and Miss Canada Julie Maloney attend a Rideau Hall gala in 1970 for Prince Charles.
“Pierre and I went out several times. I went to the Liberal Christmas party with him. We were good friends, and remained good friends. He had the ability to make it seem like what I was doing was really interesting to him, and I thought afterwards, ‘Really?’ I was 19 or 20 years old and just learning to be a teacher and still at university and trying to make my way in the world, and he had been everywhere and done everything. But I think he WAS interested. And even after the year was over and he was married, our friendship endured.
“The last time that I saw him, he was becoming quite frail. We were chatting, and I guess I had some sense that I wouldn’t see him again, and so I said, ‘I don’t want to seem maudlin, but I really want to tell you just how much our friendship has meant to me over the years, and it’s been such a privilege to have known you and been your friend.’ And he said, ‘And I’ve enjoyed you, too.’ And I said, ‘Really? You’ve been around some of the most brilliant minds in the world. What could I have ever provided you?’ And he said, ‘Comic relief.’ And I thought, ‘That’s perfect! That’s how I want to be remembered, as comic relief.’ And he also liked my homemade chocolate-chip cookies.
“So my year as Miss Canada went from November 1969 to November 1970. And I look back on it with fondness for most of the things. I think that perhaps the girls who were a little bit older than I was when they became Miss Canadas may have had an easier time. I was 18 and, I would have to say, naïve. But yes, most of it was great, and I think the thing I remember most fondly were the people I met with whom I remained friends afterwards. I never would have met Pierre Trudeau if it hadn’t been for that year, and we maintained a friendship up until the time he died. But also many other people who weren’t in the public eye, like Mary Hart, my chaperone. Just people who had a profound influence on my life in a very positive way, and I’m very glad I did it.”
— 1970 Miss Canada Julie Maloney. At her home in Kanata, March 8, 2017.
bdeachman@postmedia.com
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