Thanks so much for posting these great pics of my mom Betty Gibson and all the other beautiful women in the '53 Miss Toronto competition! I have never seen them before.

Hi again, it's Betty Gibson's daughter. I just caught up with this thread and wanted to thank you for posting those great photos of the '53 Miss Toronto contest and of my mom. She has a ton of photos in scrap books but many of these I've never seen before. Sheila, I will email you directly and...

Miss Toronto 1953 My mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Gibson, won Miss Toronto in 1953. One of her prize winnings was a trip to Florida where she met a nice young reporter who was assigned to cover her visit. Over a whirlwind few days, they spent a lot of time together, and he ended up proposing...