The Miss New Brunswick Pageant is part of the annual Woodstock Old Home Week celebration.  Woodstock’s first Old Home Week was held in 1948 during the last week of August. Mr. Fred O. Creighton, a Charter Member of the Woodstock Rotary Club, a past Mayor of the Town of Woodstock and Old Home Week’s first President conceived the idea.  With Mr. Creighton’s leadership and the Rotary Club’s enthusiastic help, Old Home Week was successful and it has continued to be.

     Beauty Contests have been held every year, but have undergone many changes. The first few years it was mainly a fashion show with a few entrants competing for the “Miss Upper Saint John River Valley” title. In 1955 a local firm donated a large trophy to the Old Home Week Commission with the understanding that the Beauty Contest would become the Miss New Brunswick Beauty Pageant and the trophy would be awarded annually to the winner. This new venture was a great success and Miss Marion Corey had the honor of being crowned the first “Miss New Brunswick”.  This pageant continued in this manner until 1969 when it was incorporated.  In 1997 Sandra Hudson took over as coordinator and the pageant experienced some changes.  The word “beauty” was omitted from the title as the pageant focuses more on the contestants’ personality, intellect, poise and talents.