[5] Her selection in 1964 as Miss Canada was based on a talent competition, where she sang a folk song, and on her appearance in a bathing suit and in an evening dress.

[6] Her prizes were a $1000 scholarship and $5000 in various tokens, which included a watch, a necklace, a console radio-phonograph, a wardrobe, and a three-week trip to Hawaii.

[10] Douma was the first Miss Canada winner to travel abroad, which included trips to India, Hong Kong, Japan,[11] Hawaii and Cyprus.

[3] Those trips indirectly promoted the Miss Canada competition worldwide, both as a prestigious event and a business investment opportunity.

[10] Apart from numerous business and modelling offers, those trips also attracted Douma to Buddhism, so much that by 1967 she moved to Nepal to study its culture and live ascetic life.