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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

Canada's first super-suburban photoplay palace has outlived every rival that ever renamed it. The Danforth Music Hall at 147 Danforth Avenue in Riverdale opened on August 18, 1919, as Allen's Danforth Theatre, built by the Allen brothers' cinema chain in the construction boom that followed the Prince Edward Viaduct's opening across the Don Valley. The names track Toronto's century: the Century Theatre from 1929 under B and F Theatres, the Titania from 1970 serving the neighbourhood's Greek comm...