PSTOS - Plaza (Fox) Theatre, Victoria B.C.

Plaza (Fox) Theatre - 2/4 Robert Morton
Victoria, B.C.
Morton installation timeframe: -
Kimball installation timeframe: 1962 - 1966

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Looking East on Yates Street from Blanshard, c. 1946

The Plaza (Fox) Theatre had two different theatre pipe organs installed:

A 2/4 Robert Morton was the original instrument. The theatre was called the Plaza at this time. Fate of this instrument is unknown.

In 1962, a 2/6 Kimball was installed. This instrument was originally installed in 1924 (KPO 6748) in the Chehalis, Washington St. Helens Theatre. The organ was sold in 1952 for $1,000 to Glenn White of Seattle. In 1962 Mr. White sold the instrument to Canadian organist Reginald Stone who comissioned him to install it in the Fox Theater.

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Reginald Stone at the Victoria Fox Theatre Kimball, date unknown

After the Fox, Frank Mankin installed the organ in his Burnaby home studio. In 1981, Mrs. Carol Otto of St. Albert, Alberta purchased the instrument. In April 1999, the organ was sold to a keyboard museum in Calgary, Alberta c/o Stuart Kennedy.