Capitol Theatre
PE-11,
Summerside,
PE
C1N 1B3
PE-11,
Summerside,
PE
C1N 1B3
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The Capitol Theatre operated as early as 1932 and was first operated by Joseph J. Gaudet. It was still open in 1959, but its closing date remains unknown at this time.
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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.
The Capitol most likely closed with a special showing of “Titanic” according to Perry himself in an October 4, 2000 article, also by CBC affiliate CBCT-TV.
A busy night: The other theatres in the background is made up by the AI.