Skyway Drive-In

1956 RR 20 E,
Fonthill, ON L0S 1E0

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Operated by: Premiere Theatres Canada

Previously operated by: Cineplex Odeon, Odeon Theatres (Canada) Ltd.

Functions: Movies (First Run)

Previous Names: Canadian Drive-In, 4 Can-View Drive-In

Phone Numbers: Box Office: 905.892.9929

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Skyway Drive-In

Located in Fonthill, ON, ten minutes from Niagara Falls, ON. After being denied permission to build a drive-in theatre in Montreal after construction started in 1946, Michel Zahorchak (who later founded Canadian Theatres) packed up and moved to the St. Catharines area and opened the Canadian Drive-In on July 17, 1947. It was closed on October 7, 1982.

It reopened on October 8, 1982 as the 4 Can-View Drive-In, which is largest drive-in in Ontario and now has four screens and holds 2,015 cars. Later taken over by Odeon Theatres (Canada) Ltd. In 2023 it was taken over by the Premier Drive-In Theatres Operating Corporation and renamed Skyway Drive-In.

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on May 11, 2007 at 3:17 pm

Kind of an unfortunate name, isn’t it? My first thought was that the cars faced the restrooms.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on August 16, 2017 at 2:51 pm

From Niagara This Week: The Can-View, a four-screen complex located off Highway 406 at Regional Road 20, was built in 1983 not long after the Dain City drive-in was shuttered. Its four screens and space for up to 2,000 cars make it one of the biggest outdoor theatres in the country.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on August 16, 2017 at 7:48 pm

Several Niagara This Week stories list Steve Forrest as the current (as of 2016) manager / projectionist of the Can-View. Forrest or his company bought it from Cineplex Odeon in 2001 or 2002, depending on the story.

Also, one of the Can-View’s screens was hit by a tornado on the afternoon of May 20, 1996, while the movie Twister was on the marquee. This birthed a Snopes-refuted urban legend that the tornado hit while that movie was playing, even during its climactic drive-in scene.

TomMc11
TomMc11 on August 20, 2017 at 8:44 pm

1956 RR 20 E, Fonthill, ON L0S 1E0, Canada gets you there in Google Maps….and the google car actually went INTO the Drive-In.

ALLAN P. BARNES
ALLAN P. BARNES on November 11, 2023 at 12:34 am

Re-opened in April 2023. New owners Premier Operating Corporation. Re-branded as SKYWAY DRIVE IN. Closed for the season October 2023.

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