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Catherine Swing is a
Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
television personality, actor, producer, director and former
Miss Canada Miss Canada is a beauty pageant for young women in Canada. It was founded in Hamilton in 1946. No title was awarded from 1993 through 2008. The trademark was purchased in 2009 by a Québec organization who produces the pageant under the name t ...
. Swing won the Miss Canada pageant in 1978, after having won the Miss Toronto crown while she was a student at
York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,000 faculty and staf ...
. Over the next year she made public appearances in different parts of the country. She talked with the challenges of being Miss Canada with the press, most notably the lack of control over her own schedule. Swing was not able to compete in the 1978 Miss Universe pageant as had what the papers called "marriage plans". In 1980, she created ''
Just Like Mom ''Just Like Mom'' is a Canadian television game show which ran from 1980 to 1985 on CTV. A total of 595 episodes were taped at CFTO-TV Studios in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ontario. It was hosted by Stephen Young during the show's fir ...
'', a television game show which ran on
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until 1985; from the second season onwards she co-hosted the show with her then-husband Fergie Olver. In 2009 a new version of the show was announced and Swing served as a consultant. After ''Just Like Mom'' concluded, Swing continued to work in television as an actor and director.


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* 20th-century births Living people Miss Canada winners Canadian game show hosts Canadian television actresses Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-tv-bio-stub