Victoria Theatre

CSWalczak on June 29, 2009 at 1:14 pm

I am not sure that this theatre was the Capitol, based on information from other sources.

Thunder Bay in Ontario was formed by a merger of the cities of Fort William and Port Arthur sometime around 1969-1970. Prior to the merger, Odeon operated theatres in both cities; both theatres were operated under the Odeon name and apparently opened within a day of each other in 1950 or 1951. After the creation of Thunder Bay, probably to avoid confusion, Odeon renamed its theatre in the former Port Arthur section of the city the Court (it was located on the corner of Court and Park Streets) and its theater in the Fort William section, the Victoria, no doubt in view of the fact that it was on Victoria street. (In a similar way, Odeon renamed its original Odeon Toronto the Odeon Carlton to avoid confusion with an older Pdeon Theatre in Toronto which was never owned by the Odeon Corporation).

The Capitol (which was owned by Famous Players) appears to have remained the Capito1, until its closure sometime around 1999-2000. This article indicates that medieval theatre production moved into the former Capitol theatre space in 2001:
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