Princess Theatre, Provincial historic movie theater in Old Strathcona, Edmonton, Canada

Princess Theatre is a movie theater and provincial historic resource in the Old Strathcona neighborhood of Edmonton, built in the early days of cinema and still showing much of its original facade and interior design. The building stands out on the street for its traditional front, which looks noticeably different from the newer constructions around it.

The Princess Theatre opened on March 8, 1915, as a single-screen cinema built for John W. McKernan at a cost of CA$75,000, after ten months of construction. It opened with 660 seats and the largest live stage in a cinema west of Winnipeg. McKernan, who had run the Gem, Alhambra and Bijou theatres, died of Spanish influenza in 1919, and the building was leased to Alexander Entwisle that year.

The building was first called the McKernan Block, after John W. McKernan, who ran it until his death in 1919. His granddaughter Susan Morrow managed the theatre from 1981 to 1994. The basement Princess II, a 100-seat screen, was added later.

The Princess Theatre sits on Whyte Avenue, Old Strathcona's main street, which is easy to walk and well served by bus routes from central Edmonton. Checking the program in advance is helpful since screenings vary week to week.

The Princess Theatre is the only surviving early cinema building in Old Strathcona, while all other similar venues from that era in the area have long since been torn down or converted. This means the original interior details inside are rare and hard to find anywhere else in Edmonton today.