If there’s one message that Tanpreet Parmar wants to get across, it’s that true beauty comes from within. The 29-year-old North Delta resident was among two dozen finalists competing for the title of Miss Canada in Montreal last month, claiming the crown at the pageant gala on Sunday, May 19. “Honestly, it felt like I was dreaming,” Parmar said of hearing her name announced as Miss Canada after three previous attempts at the title.
“Going after it for the fourth time, to really put in that work, to really work on my self-growth, and then finally win ...
it was an unreal feeling. “I don’t even know how to explain it because in that moment I coudn’t believe it. I mean, I could believe it, but at the same time it’s like, ‘Is this really happening?’ It was great, I was just really grateful and really happy.
I was full of tears, good ones. It was just a feeling of accomplishment.” Her win was not just the culmination of three days of judging at Miss Canada events, but a decade of pageant experience.
Parmar grew up in North Delta, attending Sunshine Hills Elementary after family moved to the community in 2000 and graduating from Seaquam Secondary in 2012. She was crowned Miss Charity British Columbia in 2014 and claimed the title of Miss India-Canada in 2016, before taking the first of her four runs at Miss Canada in 2019. “I decided to do Miss Canada particularly because it is a personality pageant,” Parmar told the .
“The pageant is a few days becaus.