Dance Collection Danse - Artifact Of The Month

Former National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Lois Smith was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, on October 8, 1929. At the age of eleven months, Smith was entered into a contest sponsored by the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association. Her mother described her as a “roly poly” baby. Along with seventy-four other baby contestants under a year old, Smith was examined by doctors. In her memoir, she writes, “Most of the babies were crying - all were naked; I evidently did not cry.”