Strand Theatre
20 Commercial Street,
Nanaimo,
BC
V9R 5G4
20 Commercial Street,
Nanaimo,
BC
V9R 5G4
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Reopened on August 1st, 1951
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1958
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Reopened late 1935 as the Strand:
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No ads was bought for this theatre when it opened.
This opened as Orpheum on January 22nd, 1912.
Found on Newspapers.com It reopened as Bijou theatre on February 5th, 1914. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
After the Strand closed, Fletcher’s Furniture bought the theatre building, renovated and expanded into it. When Fletcher’s relocated around 1996, the building was renovated for retail on the main floor, along with an art studio and gallery on the upper floor in what had been the balcony area of the Strand portion of the building. It was demolished, along with neighboring buildings on Commercial Street, in the fall of 2005 to make way for construction of the Vancouver Island Conference Centre.