Quesnel & District Museum and Archives

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The Strand Theatre

1910 - 1915

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Dance at the Rex Theatre

1914

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Moving Pictures

1914

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Minstrel Show

Occidental Hall 1915

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1912 Masquerade at the Occidental Hotel

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Masquerades remained popular into the 1930s. Nellie Baker, who assisted in the delivery of many babies in the community, won first prize for this stork costume. Bob Cowan who helped his grandmother and father make the costume remembered that each feather was stuck on by hand. His father pictured on the right also won a prize.


The Rex Theatre, Front Street

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1920                                                           1977


Carib Theatre

Established 1953

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Casbar Drive-In Theatre

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