Skylark Drive-In
170 Regional Road 13,
Courtland,
ON
N0J 1E0
170 Regional Road 13,
Courtland,
ON
N0J 1E0
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Herbert McLuhan opened the Skylark Drive-In in August 1950, and was located north of Highway 3 on Highway 13 between both Norfolk and Courtland.
On August 15, 1954, McLuhan’s light private plane crashed at Mount Forest when heavy fog roared through his viewing sight, which dug a 20ft trench in a farmer’s field. McLuhan was lucky to be alive when he went through his windshield and landed 10ft from the wreckage despite suffering severe injuries, including a broken left leg, a hand injury, and cuts all over his face and arms.
Premiere Theatres Canada took over the Skylark Drive-In in 1975, and lasted until its final closure in September 1992 because of the property being sold to a local farm equipment dealer known as Premier Equipment which is also a John Deere dealership. As of 2026, the Premier business alongside its John Deere dealership is temporarily closed.
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The downtown Strand Theatre would eventually close two months after the Skylark’s closure, leaving Tillsonburg without a movie house for a short period of time until the launch of the Broadway Cinemas, which opened during the mid-1990s.