Nicole Dunsdon
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|11|07}}
| birth_place = Summerland, British Columbia
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| nationality = Canadian
| citizenship = Canada
| occupation = Journalist
| alma_mater = Summerland Secondary School
University of Alberta
University of Western Ontario
| yearsactive = 1995–present
| spouse = Greg Fulmes
| children = Spencer Kryczka, Lindsay Kryczka, Harrison Kryczka
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Nicole Dunsdon (born November 7, 1970) is a Canadian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was the last person to win the Miss Canada competition{{cite AV media|title=Miss Canada 1992 - Final Walk, Crowning Moment|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL1_AF2YtP0}} before it was cancelled in 1992. The title was resurrected in 2009.
Biography
Dunsdon was born November 6, 1970. She is from Summerland, British Columbia.{{Cite news|work=The Vancouver Sun|title=Fort Langley activist crowned|date=February 1, 2011|url=http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=a7e0ff28-8290-4fe8-82a6-efd6b3221040|accessdate=April 6, 2013}}
She graduated from Summerland Secondary School in 1988;{{Cite web|title=Nicole Dunsdon: Journalist|publisher=School District 67 Okanagan Skaha|url=http://www.sd67.bc.ca/media/images/celebrations/WallofFame/2005-2006/Dunsdon.pdf|accessdate=June 24, 2013}} from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1994; and from the University of Western Ontario with a Master of Arts in Journalism the following year.
Dunsdon was crowned Miss Canada in October 1991.{{Cite news|work=Barrie Advance|title=This Week in History|date=January 3, 2007|url=http://www.simcoe.com/news-story/2013113-sidelines-jan-3/|accessdate=June 24, 2013}} She also competed in Miss Universe 1992 in Bangkok, Thailand.{{Cite news|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|title=No More Pageant?|page=2A|date=January 4, 1992}}
Some women's organizations considered the Miss Canada pageant to encourage the sexual objectification of women. Dunsdon said in 2009 that there are beauty pageant contestants that meet the stereotypes; "egotistical, materialistic, slightly air-headed and ill-informed... but those ones never win."{{Cite news|work=Ottawa Citizen|title=And the winner is... Miss Whoever|date=May 19, 2009|url=http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=404ca171-38b0-4e7f-8996-d4205b5f0876|accessdate=June 24, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422111910/http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=404ca171-38b0-4e7f-8996-d4205b5f0876|archivedate=April 22, 2014}} She ascribed the cancellation of the pageant to the early 1990s recession, and expressed disappointment "that something as traditional as the Miss Canada pageant was touchable by the economic recession."{{Cite news|work=Chicago Tribune|title=Missing Congeniality|date=January 19, 1992|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/01/19/missing-congeniality/|access-date=June 24, 2013}}
As a journalist, she was one of the editors of Harold McGill's memoirs.{{Cite book|title=Medicine and Duty: The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion, C.E.F.|author=Harold McGill|author-link=Harold McGill|editor1=Marjorie Barron Norris |editor2=Nicole Dunsdon|publisher=University of Calgary Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1552381939}} In addition to editing three books, Dunsdon worked with The Calgary Herald and The Globe and Mail before taking a position in communications with SAIT Polytechnic's Applied Research and Innovation Services department. Dunsdon later became a communications specialist at the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering.{{cn|date=August 2022}}
Family
Dunsdon married Patrick Kryczka, and was the daughter-in-law of Joe Kryczka. They separated in 2015. Dunsdon and Kryczka's son Spencer played hockey for the Okotoks Oilers, and the Princeton Tigers.{{cite web|url=https://goprincetontigers.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=12720|title=Spencer Kryczka|website=Princeton Athletics|access-date=2018-10-23}}{{cite web|url=https://www.westernwheel.com/article/oiler-proud-of-familys-summit-series-legacy-20121003|title=Oiler proud of family's Summit Series legacy|last=Greer|first=Remy|date=2012-10-03|website=Okotoks Western Wheel|access-date=2018-07-14}}
References
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External links
- [https://schulich.ucalgary.ca/profiles/nicole-dunsdon]
{{Miss Universe 1992 delegates}}
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Category:Canadian book editors
Category:Canadian women journalists
Category:Canadian women non-fiction writers
Category:Miss Universe 1992 contestants
Category:People from Summerland, British Columbia
Category:University of Alberta alumni