Catherine Swing is a

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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 to ...

. Swing won the Miss Canada pageant in 1978, after having won the Miss Toronto crown while she was a student at

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. 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'', a television game show which ran on CTV until 1985; from the second season onwards she co-hosted the show with her then-husband

Fergie Olver Fergie Olver is a Canadian former game show host and sportscaster. He is best known for co-hosting the 1980s children's game show '' Just Like Mom'', and his work as a broadcaster and dugout reporter for the Toronto Blue Jays. Olver's daughte ...

. 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