Beacon Theatre
441 Highway 16,
Burns Lake,
BC
VOJ 1E0
441 Highway 16,
Burns Lake,
BC
VOJ 1E0
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The Reo Theatre opened in November 1950, although it was originally scheduled to open during the Labor Day weekend beforehand. The building housed 37x90ft and housed 304 seats. The theater’s first closure came during the early-2000s, it sat abandoned for a time until it reopened in December 2005 under new management.
An article in the Burns Lake Lakes District News dated March 4, 2020 said that the Beacon Theatre was celebrating its 70th birthday. An original opening year of 1950 means that the Beacon is most likely the house opened that year as the Reo Theatre by R.C. “Cece” Steele, who also had houses called the Reo Theatre in Vanderhoof and Smithers, BC.