Ramona Rina Amiri is an Iranian Canadian woman of Assyrian

Assyrian people

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 and Persian

Persian people

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 heritage who won the Miss World Canada

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 contest in 2005.

She attended the contest from Vancouver

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. Ramona attended College Charlemagne

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, a private high school in Montreal, where she graduated at the age of 17. That same year' she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia with her family and began studies at the University of British Columbia in sciences.