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Upper Canada Place Cinemas
Photo from the Jeff Knoll collection.
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460 Brant St #3
Burlington ON L7R 4B6
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| Record #291 |
Opened: September 11, 1980
Closed: December 13, 2012
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Demolished:
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Capacity: 407 seats
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Current Organ: none |
| Also Known As: Cineplex 6 |
| Previously operated by: Cineplex Theatres, Cineplex Odeon Theatres, Encore Cinemas |
Information for this tour was contributed by Jeff Knoll. Seating capacities ranged from 55 to 98.
The Encore Upper Canada Place Cinemas opened to the public on September 11, 1980 as the Cineplex 6 Cinemas. At the time, it was the third in the small Cineplex circuit owned by Garth Drabinsky and Nat Taylor. The cinemas operated continuously until October of 1998, when Cineplex-Odeon Corporation closed the doors. Encore took possession shortly thereafter and spent months renovating and updating the cinemas. It reopened in the summer of 1999 as the Encore Upper Canada Place Cinemas.
This was the last remaining "original" Cineplex cinema and, notwithstanding the fate of it's "siblings", did a thriving business showing mainly commercial move-over/second run films for $4.25 a seat. The theatre mainly catered to young children, families and older folks - it also screened some alternative fare before closing in December 2012 due to the cost of digital conversion.
Encore operated standard 35mm equipment and had stereo sound in three of the six cinemas. Cinema one was also equipped for video playback. Photos
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