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of Isabelle Fry Modeling Agency

Update:

On Aug. 12, 1999, Crystal Freake was crowned Miss Teen Canada International, also winning the Teen Talent and Teen Friendship awards.

On the same night, Paula Kinden was a top 10 finisher in the Miss Canada International competition.

Miss Newfoundland and Labrador is Paula Kinden.

Newfoundland and Labrador are little-known to many people, but their place in history is enormous. This is the area where Europeans first set foot in the Americas, and, a few centuries later, where the British Empire really began. Many think of this region of Canada as remote, but it remains a crossroads of humanity.

Crystal Freake is Miss Teen Newfoundland and Labrador.

Now that we've recited a few facts about this beautiful part of the globe, allow us to introduce two of its most beautiful people.

Crystal Freake, 16, of Grand Falls-Windsor is Miss Teen Newfoundland and Labrador. She will compete for the Miss Teen Canada International title in August 1999. She's an honor student, a member of an award-winning choir, an accomplished public speaker. She studies drama, volleyball and French and has been up and down North America's Atlantic Coast, traveling as far south as Florida.

Paula Kinden, 25, of Glenwood is Miss Newfoundland and Labrador. She works in a bank in Gander, Newfoundland. She has a degree in banking and is studying for a certification to sell investment funds. She's with the Isabelle Fry Modeling Agency (one of our favorites). She's a member of an all-star softball team, likes watching loons on the lake and has traveled all across southern Canada and the northern United States, as far as the West Coast.

Northern lights

Crystal Freake is Miss Teen Newfoundland and Labrador.

A glittering Canadian court