Dominion Theatre
812 Yates Street,
Victoria,
BC
V8V 3M2
812 Yates Street,
Victoria,
BC
V8V 3M2
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Here’s another shot of the Dominion, along with the Haida (as the Plaza), taken probably around the early 1950s.
This photograph, from the Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society, shows the Dominion, Plaza (later the Haida), and Capitol theatres as they were in 1946.
There is an ad for the Dominion Theatre on this page of a brochure for the Empress Hotel published in 1916. Dominion Theatres also operated houses in Vancouver and Nanaimo.
In a 1916 lawsuit, Dominion Theatres won a judgment against an express company which had delivered a box of films to their Victoria house a day late. The law digest item on the case said that the theater company had been using the express company to ship boxes of movies from their Vancouver theater to their Victoria theater at 11:00 PM every Wednesday and Saturday night for three years, so the Dominion Theatre in Victoria must have been in operation since at least 1913.