Capitol Theatre

PE-11,
Summerside, PE C1N 1B3

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on September 12, 2026 at 7:22 am

The Capitol was twinned in 1980, and closed for the final time on October 9, 2000. The Capitol last operated with two screens and 560 seats.

rivest266
rivest266 on March 6, 2026 at 2:56 am

A busy night: The other theatres in the background is made up by the AI.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on February 15, 2026 at 12:59 pm

Summerside’s Capitol Theatre had a very long life. A CBC news item from October 9, 2000 said that longtime theater owner Emery Perry would close the house on Thanksgiving weekend (the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday was on Monday, October 9 that year, so that must have been the last day of operation.) The item said that the theater had been open for nearly a century. One source says it opened around 1911 as the Happyland Theatre, and was renamed Capitol Theatre in 1922. It was located on Water Street, but I’ve been unable to pin down an address.