Skyway Drive-In
1956 RR 20 E,
Fonthill,
ON
L0S 1E0
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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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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Kind of an unfortunate name, isn’t it? My first thought was that the cars faced the restrooms.
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.
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.
Interesting name!!
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.
2051 cars.
Re-opened in April 2023. New owners Premier Operating Corporation. Re-branded as SKYWAY DRIVE IN. Closed for the season October 2023.
Can(ada)-View?
Opened on October 8th, 1982 by Canadian Odeon Theatres. Grand opening ad posted
Can-View Drive-In opening 08 Oct 1982, Fri Niagara Falls Review (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada) Newspapers.com