Baby Peggies, Sunday 26 August 1923 According to her Wikipedia page, Vancouver already had a Baby Peggy, whose first birthday happened to fall on the day the winners of this contest were selected. Yvonne De Carlo (bottom photo) wrote in her autobiography that  I was named Margaret Yvonne – Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own. For more on the Vancouver/Yvonne De Carlo connection, see this, this, and this. Sources: Vancouver Sun, 26 August 1923 and 16 January 1982
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Baby Peggies, Sunday 26 August 1923

According to her Wikipedia page, Vancouver already had a Baby Peggy, whose first birthday happened to fall on the day the winners of this contest were selected. Yvonne De Carlo (bottom photo) wrote in her autobiography that 

I was named Margaret Yvonne – Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

For more on the Vancouver/Yvonne De Carlo connection, see this, this, and this.

Sources: Vancouver Sun, 26 August 1923 and 16 January 1982

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