Strand Theatre

The original location of the Strand Theatre, in the Knight Block, where it operated from May 8, 1924 until the building was destroyed by fire on March 13, 1926, was in fact the old Chilliwack Opera House, on the top floor of a three story building built in 1907, where Chilliwack’s first regular programs of movies were presented beginning in the summer of 1909. The movie programs were transferred to the new Edison Theatre in 1910, and the Opera House then remained a live venue until adapted into the Strand in 1924. The new Strand of 1926 was in a single-story building on the same site.