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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

When it opened it was the biggest theatre in Canada, and locals still call it the Grand Old Lady of Granville. The Orpheum in downtown Vancouver - main entrance at 884 Granville Street, with the auditorium itself sitting on the cheaper land behind, facing Seymour and Smithe - opened on 8 November 1927 as a 3,000-seat vaudeville palace of the Chicago-based Orpheum Circuit. The architect was B. Marcus Priteca, the Scottish-born master of West Coast movie palaces, who delivered a Second Renaissanc...