Le Laurier

• Le 2 février 1973, une grande ouverture en anglais et en français pour Le Beaver se trouve dans la section de photos de ce cinéma.

• February 2nd, 1973 grand opening ad in English and French for Le Beaver can be found in the photo section for this cinema.

The Laurier Palace was a different theater and now has its own page here on CT: View link. There is a link there to an article about the fire and the passage of the law mentioned by Davis Zornig. That particular law only applied to theatres in Quebec province (though other provinces restricted the attendance of children in movie theaters to various degrees) and was very much influenced by the powerful Catholic Church in Quebec which saw an opportunity in the tragedy to prevent children from what the Church deemed immoral influences as much as the professed interest in child safety.

There was a fire at the Laurier Palace theater in Montreal in January 1927. I don’t know if that is an aka for this theater. A news story called this an east-end theater.

The interior was demolished only three months before the scheduled visit by the city officials who wanted to class it as historical building,thus protecting it from further destruction. The owner wanting to be able to sell it for anything but a theater rushed to destroy it. When the city clerks arrived, they only found an empty cube with four walls.